Wells v. Groesbeck

This suit was instituted by the appellees, against the appellants, as administrators of the estate of one D. R. Mitchell, to recover the amount of a promissory note, for fourteen hundred and seventy-six dollars, executed by said D. R. Mitchell to one John Shea, and endorsed by said John Shea to the appellees.

The note upon which the suit was instituted, is not a negotiable instrument. The appellants, defendants in the court below, pleaded that the note was given for the purchase money of one third of a league of land, purchased by D. R. Mitchell, in his lifetime, from John Shea; and that the…