Legal Opinion

Brown v. Trulock

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided December 9, 1837PublishedCited by 1 opinion

APPEAL from the Scott Circuit Court. The demurrers to the special pleas in this case were overruled by the Court below, and a judgment was there rendered for the defendant.

1Opinion of the CourtSullivan, J.

This is an action of debt founded upon the record of a judgment of a justice of the peace of Scott county. To the declaration the defendant pleaded, 1st, nil debet, on which the plaintiff joined issue; 2dly, that the judgment obtained by the plaintiff against the defendant before the justice of the peace, was obtained by fraud, &c., in this, that the plaintiff agreed with the defendant- that, in consideration that he the defendant would confess said judgment, he the plaintiff as executor, &c. would assign to the defendant a certain judgment on the docket of one Arthur. Waits, a justice of the…

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Cole v. DriskellIndiana Supreme Court · 1818

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Allen v. ChadseyIndiana Supreme Court · 1849

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