Bean v. Keen

— Debt by S. Keen the assignee against Bean the maker of three several promissory notes. Pleas, the general issue, and a failure of consideration. Similiter to the first plea, and a replication to the second. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.

The allegations in the declaration are, that the notes on which the suit was brought were executed by Bean the plain*153tiff in error, and made payable to one Baldwin, and by him assigned to Timberlake, who assigned them to one Abner Keen, by whom they were assigned to the plaintiff; and that they have been lost out of the plaintiff’s possession, &c.

The…