Rhoads v. Frederick

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Kennedy, J.

The single bill, or specialty, upon which this action was brought in the court below, by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in error, was executed originally by the latter and three other persons, on the 28th of September, A. D. 1835, promising thereby jointly and severally, to pay the sum of one hundred dollars to the defendant in error, with interest thereon from that day, on or before the first day of May, then next following. It was given *449for the payment of the debt of John Campbell, whose name and seal were first set to it.…