Pickrell v. Jerauld

The appellee Martha R. Jerauld, the plaintiff, in the court below, sued the appellants on a note made payable to Sylvester B. Jerauld, her husband, which was by him assigned to her. The appellants answered, in four paragraphs :

1st. General denial. 2d. Payment. 3d. That the note was executed without consideration. 4th. Set-off, which was a judgment rendered by the Gibson Circuit Court, on the 21st day of February, 1887, against Sylvester B. Jerauld, the payee of said note, and in favor of Martin V. Wither-spoon and others, in the sum of two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-three…