Brown v. Turpin

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

Eliza Turpin brought this suit against I. S'. Brown, and Charles M. Brown and Sam Brown as sureties, to recover on a note for $1,750. In the first paragraph of the answer the defendants pleaded a counterclaim of $1,200 for board and lodging furnished plaintiff. In the second paragraph they pleaded that the note and money represented thereby did not belong to .plaintiff, but belonged to her late husband, James Turpin; that said money belonged to and was loaned to defendant I. S. Brown by the said husband, and that for the purpose of •escaping…