Cutter & Co. v. Reynolds

Judge Breck

delivered the opinion of tlte Court.

W. B. Reynolds, assignee of J. H. Reynolds, sued Cutter & Co. by petition and summons, upon a note for' $1,347 55. Judgment having been rendered'for the plaintiff, the defendants have appealed to this Court.,

The defendants plead substantially as follows: “That on the 12th December, 1846, before the assignment of the note sued on, J. H. Reynolds, together with, other creditors of defendants, bound himself and promised defendants in writing in substance as follows; ‘We, the undersigned, confidential creditors of B. G. Cutter & Co. of Louisville,…