Sybert v. Jones

This was an action brought by Sybert, as indorsee of Charles II. Ashby, on a promissory note, against the defendant, Jones, *87in the law commissioner’s court. The defendant, in his answer, states that the .note sued on was given on the Blst of July, 1852, by the defendant to said Ashby, “upon a bet made upon the August election, and was wholly without consideration, and that there was never any consideration for the same, which the above named plaintiff well knew at the time he received the same from said Ashby ; that said note was transferred by the said Ashby to the said plaintiff, without…