Segond v. Thomas
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Western Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action on a mercantile account stated, in which the plaintiff claims a balance due of four thousand one hundred and ten dollars and ninety cents, according to an account, annexed, for sundry acceptances, advances, commissions, and articles delivered, between the 18th June, 1831, and the 20th June, 1832, and also credits for proceeds of sales of sugar and molasses,…
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Western Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action on a mercantile account stated, in which the plaintiff claims a balance due of four thousand one hundred and ten dollars and ninety cents, according to an account, annexed, for sundry acceptances, advances, commissions, and articles delivered, between the 18th June, 1831, and the 20th June, 1832, and also credits for proceeds of sales of sugar and molasses, during the same period, made on account of the defendant. The defendant pleaded a general denial, and especially denied the…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiff is appellant from a judgment of the District Court, disallowing the greater part of the balance of an account claimed by him. The part which was rejected consisted of a draft of three thousand three hundred dollars, with interest and commissions thereon, drawn on the plaintiff by Sewell Woolfolk, who is alleged to have been authorized to make it by the defendant.
Where the acceptor of a draft, notifies the principal or guarantor of the agent or drawer, of its 'acceptance, tenor and amount, by stating it at the foot ot an account rendered on a settlement, before the draft is due,…
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