New Orleans Canal & Banking Co. v. Tanner
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the Ninth Judicial District Court, parish of Rapides. Orsborn, J.
1Opinion of the CourtWyly, J.
The plaintiff sues on five promissory notes of Esther P. *274Tanner, deceased, whose succession is represented by the defendant,, and also to foreclose the mortgage securing their payment. The defense is prescription. There is no doubt that the first note, payable on the fifteenth December, 1867, is prescribed. As to this there is no-controversy. The dispute is as to the next two notes, maturing-twenty-second February, 1868.
It is not pretended that the last two notes, maturing twenty-second, February, 1869, are prescribed.
On the twenty-fourth February, 1873, the day before prescription would…
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