McLemore v. Hawkins
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the circuit court of Carroll county, Niles, J. [Counsel on both sides filed elaborate written arguments which are too lengthy for insertion here, and too full and compact to justify any abridgment by the reporter.]
1Opinion of the Court
Simrall, J. :
McLemore, Rayburn & Co., being indebted to the Louisiana State Bank $6,525, by promissory note, payable four months after the 3d March, 1862, pledged as security therefor to the bank the note of J. D. & F. Hawkins, dated January 1, 1861, and one 1st March, 1862, for $9,333. The note *717of the Messrs. Hawkins was payable to J. 33. McLemore, and by Mm indorsed in blank. By the contract of pledge, wMch was in writing, if McLemore, Rayburn & Co. did not, at maturity, pay tkeir note, or any renewal thereof, then the president and cashier of the bank, or either, of them, as agents, were…
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