Hooker v. Folsom

Debt by Folsom against Hooker and others, on a writing obligatory for the payment of 100 dollars. Plea, failure of consideration.

The plea alleges that the writing obligatory sued on, was given in part payment, viz., for the one-third of the purchase-money of a certain tract of land purchased by said Hooker of one Lewis L. Davis, who directed the writing obligatory to be made to the plaintiff below; that Davis conveyed the land to Hooker by deed in fee, with covenants of warranty and seizin; that the only title Davis had to the land was obtained by him at sheriff’s sale upon two executions…