Beeson v. McConnaha

The appellee, who was the plaintiff, brought this action against William Beeson and William S. T. Morton, upon a bill of exchange. The bill was drawn by Bee-son upon himself, and accepted by himself, and indorsed by Morton.

*421The defendants answered—

1. “ That Beeson, on the 16th of December, 1856, purchased of plaintiff ninety-five head of hogs, which, by the contract of sale, were to average two hundred pounds each, for which he was to give 5 dollars per hundred weight, and to. execute to plaintiff his note for the purchase-money, with Morton -as surety, payable on the first of March, 1857. And…