Walker v. Whitehead

stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court.

The case, as it appears in the record, is a,s follows: On the 1st of January, 1870, the plaintiff in error instituted this suit against the defendant in error upon a promissory note, made by the latter to the former, dated March 28th, 1864, for $7219.47, payable-on the 19th .of March then next’ ensuing; The defendant interposed two pleas :

1st. That after the maturity of the note be bad tendered payment in Confederate treasury notes.

2d. That he was a loser by the result of the late war against the United States of one hundred negroes…