Lord v. Brookfield

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Depue, J.

This action is in debt on a common money bond, in the penal sum of $3100, conditioned for the payment of $1550, made by Lord to one Benjamin Sire, and by him assigned to Brookfield.

The defendant below pleaded in bar of the action, that the said bond was obtained from him by said Sire by fraud,.covin, and misrepresentation. The particulars of the fraud are stated in the plea as follows: That the defendant purchased of Sire a tract of land in the county of Morris, for the sum of $6000, in part payment of which the said bond was given ; that, in.…