Tennessee Supreme Court September 15, 1844 (Lamden v. State)

Reese, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

In the year 1838, the plaintiff in error sold a tract of land to one I. B. Butcher. In security for the consideration, the said Butcher gave to the plaintiff in error two several bills single of the same date and tenor, each for the sum of two hundred dollars, payable to the said plaintiff in error, in the May of the following year, to each of which,