Martin v. Asher's Administrator

This was a suit by Martin, the appellant, against Ghinoweth, as administrator of Edmund Asher, deceased, and Benjamin T. Duncan, on a lost note, alleged to have been executed by Asher, in his lifetime, to Duncan.

The facts, as we gather them from an imperfect and extremely confused record, are as follows: That Asher, on the 1st of September, 1849, executed a promissory note to Duncan for the sum of $200, payable on the 25th of December of the same year. After Asher’s death, Duncan, claiming that the original note was lost, furnished a copy of it, and made to Martin, the plaintiff, the…