Vanlandingham v. Ryan
Illinois Supreme Court
This cause was tried before Baugh, Judge, without the intervention of a jury, at December term, 1854, of the Gallatin Circuit Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the court below. The defendant below brought the cause to this court and assigned errors.
1Opinion of the Court
This was an action of debt, commenced in the Gallatin Circuit Court, by foreign attachment, at the suit of Ryan, surviving assignee of the Bank of Illinois, against Vanlandingham, upon two promissory notes for $2,000 each.
The defendant below filed twelve pleas in bar. The fourth plea sets forth that there was no consideration for the execution of the notes sued on. To which there was a demurrer overruled, and a replication, that the notes “ were not made for no consideration.” To this replication there was a demurrer.
The fifth plea sets forth a suit on the same notes in the Circuit Court of…
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