Holeman v. Lamme

Debt upon two promissory notes by the as-signee of the payee against the maker. Plea, that the notes were given in consideration of the purchase by the defendant from- the payee of a certain tract of land; that the latter, at *236the time the notes were made, executed to the former a bond conditioned for the conveyance to him, by deed in fee simple, of the land so purchased, on the day on which the notes were payable; and that no deed had, at the time designated, or at any other time, been made or offered to be made. Replication, that the consideration of the notes had not failed in manner and…