Eggleston v. Castle

This was an action by the appellee against the appellant, upon a promissory note executed by the defendant to Robert E. Stephens and William P'razier, and duly endorsed to the plaintiff.

The defendant answered in several paragraphs, the substance of the defence being that the note was given for sawing a lot of lumber, which the payees had undertaken to do under a special contract, and that they had failed to perform their agreement, in not sawing the lumber in accordance with the terms of the contract, both as to amount and the char-1 acter of the work, and that the note had been procured by…