Brickhouse v. . Brickhouse

The action is trover for three promissory notes, made by third persons, and payable to Joseph Brown, the intestate of the plaintiff, and amounting, together, to the sum of $175. On the trial upon the general issue the defendant set up title to the notes under a gift from Brown; and he gave evidence that, about 1 November, 1848, he (Brown) being about to sail on a voyage to the West Indies, delivered the notes to the defendant (who was his uncle), saying to him, "If I never return, these notes are to be yours." Brown proceeded on the voyage at the time mentioned, and, at the time of trial, in…