Porter v. Brooks

By the Court, Crockett, J.:

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion to dissolve an attachment. The action is founded, in part, on a promissory note, and partly on a small book account. The defendant moved to dissolve the attachment on the ground that, after action brought, he had tendered to the plaintiff and his attorneys payment of the book account, which tenr der was refused; and he avers his readiness to pay at any time. In respect to the promissory note, he avers that the consideration of it was the following, to wit: That he procured from the plaintiff a conveyance for an…