Pool v. Hodnett

The plaintiff in error sued the defendants in the Circuit Court of Chambers county, to recover the amount of twelve notes, for forty-five dollars each, and one for thirty-six dollars, executed by the defendants and payable to the plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of Martha Brewer. Pleas were interposed, impeaching the consideration of the notes as having failed, and upon the ground of fraud. There was a verdict and judgment for the defendants below, to reverse which the plaintiff has prosecuted his writ of error to this court.

Upon the trial, a bill of exceptions was sealed, from which…