Adams v. Webster

This is a suit on two promissory notes made by defendant. Webster, to the order of and indorsed by one J. F. Thompson, and secured by mortgage on certain property in the town of Thibodaux, sold by Thompson to Webster on the twentieth of November, 1865. The defense is that said notes are the property of defendant; that Thompson and the plaintiff were commercial partners from 1864 till recently; that at, before and after the maturity of said notes, Thompson had in his hands money aud proceeds of cotton, *114amounting to $5440 of defendant’s, deposited from October 6, 1865, to-the institution of…