Gillett v. Landis
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court of the first district. This is an action to recover $3750, the amount of three promissory notes signed by George E. Wright, and payable to the order of Wm. T. Joyce, in four, eight and twelve months from the 8th April, 1837, which the plaintiff alleges were placed in the hands of the defendants for collection by the [471] payee.
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Appeal from the court of the first district. This is an action to recover $3750, the amount of three promissory notes signed by George E. Wright, and payable to the order of Wm. T. Joyce, in four, eight and twelve months from the 8th April, 1837, which the plaintiff alleges were placed in the hands of the defendants for collection by the [471] payee. That shortly before the first of said notes became due, Joyce, the payee, placed the defendants’ receipt for the notes, indorsed and assigned over to him, in his hands, together with a written agreement or transfer, directing the defendants to…
1Opinion of the CourtSimon, J.
Plaintiff sues for the recovery of the sum of $3750, which he alleges to be the amount of three notes of hand, which were transferred to him by one ”W. *286T. Joyce, in July, 1837. He represents that the said three notes, each amounting to $1250, dated the 8th of April, 1837, payable four, eight, and twelve months after date, and drawn by Gr. R. Wright to the order of the said Joyce, had been placed by Joyce in the hands of the defendants for collection, and that in consequence of the transfer, defendants’ receipt for said notes, together with a written order to hand them over, or the proceeds ,…
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