Gledhill v. Brown

This was a suit on a promissory note. The defendants admitted the execution of the note and assumed the burden of proof. They pleaded, by way of affirmative defense, that the note had been paid in full by the performance of certain services for the plaintiff in sawing and hauling lumber, and by the plaintiff’s having cut from the premises of the defendants sufficient timber, at the price agreed on in the contract for the sale of the timber, to cover the amount due on the note. They further pleaded that there had been an accord and satisfaction between the parties, in that, in the year 1923,…