Eureka Fertilizer Co. v. Baltimore Copper

This suit was instituted to recover the amount of several promissory notes given for the purchase price of a barge sold by the appellee to the appellant. To the declaration which contained, in addition to counts on the notes, the usual money counts, the defendant pleaded the general issue, and several defences by way of equitable pleas which need not be particularly alluded to at this time. But one exception appears in the record and that was taken to the action of the Court below upon the several prayers presented by both plaintiff and defendant for instructions to the jury. Whether the in*187str…