Allis v. Stafford

Smith, J.:

The action is on a promissory note, made by George W. Wood and the appellant, Stafford, who signed it for the accommodation of Wood. The note was made payable to Dewey Bement or bearer. Bement died before the trial. The suit was commenced in a justice’s court, where the plaintiff recovered against both defendants. Stafford alone appealed. On the trial in the County Court Stafford offered to prove by Wood, transactions and communications had by him with Bement, at the time of the execution ■of the note and subsequently thereto, for the purpose of establishing the defenses set up in…