Comparet v. Hedges

Comparet sued Hedges before a justice of the peace on a promissory note, by which the latter promised *447to pay the former $28.62, “balance on first payment on lots in the town of Somerset;” date of the note, May the ,7th, 1836. The defendant filed no plea. The cause- was appealed to the Circuit Court. Verdict and judgment for the defendant.

On the trial, after the plaintiff had given the note in evidence, the defendant proved that the plaintiff, together with one Platter and one Burns, had executed to him several bonds of the same date as -the note, each conditioned for the conveyance to the…