Wicks v. Perkins
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Texas
In equity. [Suit by the assignee in bankruptcy of George A. Wicks & Co. against Henry E. Perkins.J On exceptions to the sufficiency of a plea to the bill of complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The bill was filed on September 10, 1870, and alleges in substance, that on the first day of April. 1867, the defendant. Henry E. Perkins, being indebted to George A Wicks A Co., in a large sum of money, made and delivered to said Wicks & Co. his four promissory notes of that date, for $4.214.29 each, payable to their order at the Houston Insurance Company in the city of Houston, in six, twelve, eighteen and twenty-four months respectively, with eight per cent, interest. On the same day, in order to secure the payment of said notes, Perkins executed to Andrew J. Burke a…
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