Russell v. Berkstresser

Winslow, C.

This is an action on three promissory notes executed by defendant to plaintiff, each for $450, all bearing the same date, -but payable at different dates, with compound interest at ten per cent, with a credit indorsed on the one first maturing of .$168.

The answer, after a general denial, and the statement that the notes were executed solely in consideration of the purchase money of certain land, states : “ That on the 29th day of July, 1878, the date of said notes, plaintiff executed to defendant a conveyance of said real estate, whereby the said plaintiff covenanted with the…