Walton v. Beauregard

The defendant being sued on his promissory note, dated on the 2d May, 1834, payable five years after date, on which a balance of $1449 58, with interest, appears to be due, answered that he is not liable to pay it, because be says the note, with others, was given by respondent to the plaintiff, to secure the payment of a part of the price of certain lots of ground, situated in the city of Lafáyette, which he l'.al purchased of the plaintiff. -That the defendant afterwards sold the same lots to Maurice Canon, who under*302took to pay the notes of defendant to plaintiff, and the one sued on among…