Moore v. . Hill

The action is upon a promissory note under seal executed by the defendants to Thomas B. Ashford, and the recovery is resisted upon the allegation of a failure of consideration and an assignment to the plaintiff after its maturity. After the jury were empanelled, no issues hav- iug been previously prepared,- the court drew up and submitted those set out in the record, in response to which the-findings are in- substance, that the'steam enginefor the payment of which the note was given was not the property of Ashford, but belonged to-the plaintiff, arid there was no-fraud in the sale that the…