Covington v. Ross

Appellee brought this action against the appellants in the circuit court of Winston county and sought to recover judgment on six promissory notes, which were attached as exhibits to the declaration. Appellants plead the general issue, and also set up as a defense, by special plea, that all remedy to enforce the collection of the notes sued on was barred under the statute of limitations fixed by chapter 251, Laws of Mississippi of 1934, on the ground that the notes sued on constitute a series of notes of three or more, and were secured by a deed’ of trust which had been foreclosed prior to the…