Arnold v. Park
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 2 — PETITION— APPEAL EROM BATH CIRCUIT COURT. 9 Johnson’s Pep. 123, Wood v. Williams. 1 Espinassi’s Nisi Prim, 244. 2 Parsons on Contracts, 220, and note. 4 Met. (Mass.) 80, Pierce v. Parker. 8 Metcalfe, 828, Bennett v. McCrocklin. Coke upon Littleton, section 508. Comyn’s Digest, title Eelease, E. Cliitty on Contracts, 9th: American edition, 675. Eevised Statutes, sec. 6, chap. 22, 1 Stanton, 268. Myers’s Supplement, 292. Civil Code, section 80.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PETEES
delivered the opinion oe the court.
In August, 1868, this action was brought by appellee on a note executed, by appellant for two thousand and fifty dollars to G. D. and S. P. Atchison, on the 9th of February, 1866, due twelve months thereafter, for part of the purchase-price of a tract of one hundred and fifty-five acres of land, and assigned by the payees therein to appellee.
Appellant sets up in his answer, by way of set-off to appellee’s demand, a debt of fifteen hundred dollars, contracted by him with George Park for a tract of land sold by him to appellee, and by said George…
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