Wolford v. Powers

The appellant’s complaint is founded upon a promissory note executed by the appellee’s intestate. The answer of the appellee alleges that the only consideration for the note sued on was the sum of $40 paid to the intestate by ¡the appellant, and the agreement of the latter to bestow upon ■one of his children the name of Charles Lehman Wolford. The appellant replied to this answer that Charles Lehman, .the intestate, had .been an intimate friend of the appellant, and a frequent visitor at his house; that Lehman was a *295widower, about eighty-seven years of age; that he had been the father of one…