Woodward v. Davis

The facts, as they appear in the special verdict, are, in substance, these : The appellee executed to the-appellant a promissory note for one hundred and'twenty dollars, and as collateral security gave him an order upon a railway company by whom the appellee was employed. Payments were made on the note at various times, and the entire sum due upon it was paid before October 18th, 1887. The *173appellant received upon one of the orders delivered to him as collateral security the sum of $60.90 on the day named. “About the time,” as the verdict recites, “ the defendant received from the railway…