Wood v. Harispe

Plaintiff alleges that in the month of July or August, 1862, he owned one hundred and forty bales of cotton; that this cotton was at a placo called Little Bayou Tensas, on Grand river in the parish of St. Mary, and that it was in the keeping of one N. J. Pharr. He avers that the defendant demanded and received this cotton from Pharr, and that he disposed of the same. He alleges that Harispe owes him an account of this cotton which, although demanded of him, he has refused and neglected to render. He says that the cotton in question averaged four hundred pounds per bale, and that it was worth…