Judy v. Gerard

OPINION OF

THE COURT.

This is an action of debt on a sealed bill, for the payment of seven hundred dollars. The defendants pleaded that David Gerard, being much embarrassed, corruptly agreed, against the statute, with Henry Hays, that he should advance to him the sum of one thousand dollars, in notes of the Bank of Illinois, which were then and there greatly reduced and under par, being worth only thirty-seven and a half cents in the dollar, and that the said Gerard should execute a note to him, with the said Jacob Hays security, for the payment of one thousand dollars, on or before the 1st of…