Lowry v. Hawes

Lowry sued Hawes, declaring on three promissory notes; one for $700; another for $500 given to Lowry; the third, a smaller note assigned to plaintiff.

Defendant pleaded that he did not owe the debt, and then for a special plea, that as to the two larger notes, there ' was no consideration; that they were given as a sham arrangement between the parties, and not to be enforced as debts, under the following circumstances: That in 1864, Lowry had a lot of salt and tobacco in Greene county, and desired defendant to haul it, either to Knoxville, or in that direction, and dispose of it on the terms…