Baker v. Garlick

This action is brought to recover #642 10, with *126ten per cent interest per annum from the 1st of May, 1841, which the petition alleges to be a balance due to the plaintiff on a sale of certain tracts of land, by him made to the defendant for $1642 10, on the 3d of July, 1839. It is further alleged, that, to secure the said price, the land sold was specially mortgaged that on the 23d of June, 1840, the defendant paid $200, and on the 10th of July following, a further sum of $800 ; both which payments were endorsed on the back of the note sued on; and that at the last mentioned date it was…