Bannon v. Bean

The plaintiff sued on a note before a justice of the peace. A writ of error issued from the District Court, under which the defendants assigned as error that, upon the trial, they offered to prove that, subsequently to the time of giving the note sued on, the plaintiff agreed with the defendant that if they would procure a deed of conveyance of a certain piece of land, from one Nichols and wife, to the plaintiff, he, (plaintiff,) would give up the note sued on, with another; and that he had procured such deed of conveyance and tendered it to the plaintiff, and that, upon objection made, the…