McGuire v. Callahan

Action by Callahan against McGuire, for goods sold and delivered, etc.

*129Trial; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.

The case is before us on the evidence, which strongly-preponderates in favor of the defendant, though, in some respects, it is conflicting. There is one particular, however, in which it totally fails to sustain the verdict. The plaintiff had executed to the defendant the following instrument, in writing, viz:

“In consideration of my indebtedness to Andrew McGuire, and the costs of his suit against me, and certain claims which the said McGuire agrees to pay for me, I have sold,…