McConnell v. Jones

This was an action brought by McConnell, on a one thousand dollar note, made by the defendant, on July 31st, 1857, payable sixty days after date. The defense appears in two paragraphs of the answer. In the first paragraph, it is alleged, that in June, 1857, the plaintiff executed the following written contract to Hoioard and one Bailey:

“ I have this day sold to Bailey §• Howard, four thousand fleeces of wool, more or less, at forty-nine cents a pound. "Wool to be washed on the sheep, to be put up in good merchantable order, free from tags, to be delivered in Springfield, at the depot of the…