Watrous v. Rodgers

The material ground of equity, in the appellant’s petition, is, that when the suit was brought against him, on his note of hand, he had made an arrangement with the counsel in the suit, by which he was, on a certain day, to pay, in the notes of the Republic, the amount of the debt, for which, he gave his note for twenty-nine hundred dollars, payable in the notes aforesaid, payable about the first of September following. This was in the year 1841, and the suit was, by the said agreement, to be dismissed ; and the note, so given, was to be received in full payment and discharge of the note sued…