Downing v. Ringer

Opinion of the Court, delivered by

Napton, Judge.

Ringer was the assignee of a note, given by Downing to one William Muldrow, for two hundred dollars. The action on the note was petition in debt, and the defendant pleaded nil debit, and two pleas of fraud generally. Issue was taken ; and on the trial, defendant offered to prove that the considc ration of the note was a town lot in the town of Philadelphia, (Marion county,) and the sale was made and the note given anterior to the acknowledgment, certifying, depositing, and filing of the plat of said town in the recorders office of Marion county.…