Patten v. Gleason

This action is brought upon a promissory note of the defendant, dated September 7, 1869, for $560, payable ninety days after date to A. S. & W. G. Lewis & Company, or order, and indorsed to the plaintiffs. It is admitted in the defence, that $500 were lent by the payees of the note to the d@*440fendant, and $35 were included for the interest till its maturity, at seven per cent. The only defence alleged is, that $25 were included as a consideration for an agreement of the payees that they should procure an insurance for the amount of the note, on the adventure or charter of a certain brig of the…