Harrison's Administrator v. Hastings

The payee and endorser of the note sued on madeja written contract with the defendants, by which he agreed to cause two balloon ascensions to be made at Boonville*on the first and fourth days of October, 1855, and also to give two exhibitions of fire-works — one on each of said days. The defendants agreed to pay Peckham, for the two balloon ascensions and exhibitions of fire-works, eight hundred dollars, for which they executed and delivered their two negotiable promissory notes, each for four hundred dollars, the note described in the petition being one of them. It was further stipulated in…