Barlow v. Myers

Daniels, J.:

The plaintiffs are the holders and owners of three promissory notes made by the firm of Randall & Williams, to the order of Nathan Randall, and indorsed by him to them. They were given for borrowed money and were respectively for the sum of $1,000, $500, and $2,400. They were held and owned by him on the 3d day of April, 1871. On that day the firm mailing the notes entered into an agreement with the defendant, who at that time was the executrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Austin Myers.

The firm had become indebted to the testator in his lifetime, and apparently for the…