Evansville, Indianapolis & Cleveland Straight Line Railroad v. Dunn

Suit upon a promissory note of the following tenor:

“$700. Indianapolis, September 25, 1858.

“Fifteen months after date, I promise to pay to the order of the Evansville, Indianapolis and Cleveland Straight Line Railroad Go., at Spencer, seven hundred dollars, value received; without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. “ S. W. Dunn.”

The defendant answered:

1. That the note was executed without consideration.

2. That on March 14, 1855, at Owen county, the defendant subscribed to the capital stock of the Evansville, &c., Railroad Go. twenty shares, of fifty dollars each,…