Lafourche Transportation Co. v. Pugh

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Monroe, J.

Plaintiffs, who are liquidating commissioners, sue as *1518holders and owners of a promissory note, of which the following is' a copy, to-wit:

“Parish of Assumption, La., June 23, 1893.

“On the fifteenth of February, next, 1894, I promise to pay to the “ order of Wm. W. Pugh, agent and attorney in fact of Mrs. Mary E. “ Flower, Dr. Thomas B. Pugh, Lawrence IT. Pugh, Edward N. Pugh, “ P. Sidney Pugh, and Francis W. Denny, at the Bank of Commerce “of New. Orleans, La., the sum of five thousand dollars, for value “ received, with interest at the rate…