Denman v. McMahin

The appellant filed a claim, consisting of two promissory notes, payable in American gold, against the estate of Moses H. Denman, his deceased son. The administrator answered, first, the general denial, which was afterward withdrawn; second, that the amount of money mentioned in the notes, five hundred dollars, was paid to the (deceased by his father as an advancement under an agree•,ment, then made, that the deceased should pay the taxes of ■•the plaintiff on the amount of the notes, and that the note should riot be collected, but should, at the death of the plain-stiff, be the property of…