Groves v. Slaughter
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern' District of Louisiana.' In the first case, the defendant- in error, on- the ilth day oif February, .1839, had instituted'a'suit, by petition, in' the Circuit Court of Louisiana, against the plaintiffs in error, on a promissory note. for the sum of seven thousand eight hundred' and seventy-five dollars, dated at Natchez, on the 20th of December, 1836, payable at the Commercial'Bank at Natchez, drawn by John…
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IN error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern' District of Louisiana.' In the first case, the defendant- in error, on- the ilth day oif February, .1839, had instituted'a'suit, by petition, in' the Circuit Court of Louisiana, against the plaintiffs in error, on a promissory note. for the sum of seven thousand eight hundred' and seventy-five dollars, dated at Natchez, on the 20th of December, 1836, payable at the Commercial'Bank at Natchez, drawn by John W. Brown to the order of, and endorsed by R. M. Roberts, and also endorsed by Moses-Groves and James Graham, payable…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
On the 5th of April, 1838, a suit was commenced by the defendant in error, against the plaintiffs in error, in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Louisiana, upon a note, a copy of which is set out in the record, as follows:
Natchez, December. 20th, 1836.
Twelve months after date, I promise to pay to, R. M. Roberts, or order, the sum of seven thousand dollars, for value received, payablé and negotiable at the Commercial Bank Of Natchez, state of Mississippi., John W. Brown.
Endorsed by.
R. M. Roberts,
Moses Groves,
James Graham.
In the course of the proceedings in the…
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