Williams v. Henderson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action against the drawer of a hill of Exchange, ..drawn at Warrenton, the 23d December, 1836, on Brander, McKenna & Wright, of New-Orleans, and by them accepted; payable to the order of George Henderson, 373 days after date. The bill was duly protested for non-payment at maturity; and on the 1st November, 1840, this suit was instituted against Wm.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action against the drawer of a hill of Exchange, ..drawn at Warrenton, the 23d December, 1836, on Brander, McKenna & Wright, of New-Orleans, and by them accepted; payable to the order of George Henderson, 373 days after date. The bill was duly protested for non-payment at maturity; and on the 1st November, 1840, this suit was instituted against Wm. Henderson, the drawer, for the sum of $3600, with costs of protest and interest; for all of which the plaintiff prays judgment. - The defendant, without admitting any of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSimon, J.
Defendant is appellant from a judgment rendered ag'ainst him for the amount of a Bill of Exchange, by him drawn at Warrenton, on the 23d of December, 1836, on the commercial house of Brander, McKenna & Wright, to the order of George Henderson, and subsequently endorsed by the latter.
Our attention is first called to the declinatory exception taken by said defendant, on the ground, that his legal domicil and .principal establishment are, and have been for a long time, in the parish of Carroll, and not in the parish and city of New Orleans, in which, he insists, he is not suable.
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