Billingsley v. Stratton

Stratton sued Billingsley upon a promissory note for the payment of 450 dollars. The note bears date June 27, 1856, is payable to one Jacob Iliff, at ten days, and was by him indorsed in blank to the plaintiff. Defendant’s answer contains three paragraphs. The first and third make no point in the case, and will not, therefore, be further noticed. The second is as follows:

That defendant, when he executed the note in suit, was security for Iliff, the payee, on a note given by him, Iliff, *397to one Roswell Randall, for 290 dollars. And after he gave the note sued on, and before the same was…