Legal Opinion

Sanger v. State Bank

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided January 15, 1854Published

Writ of Error to Pulaski Circuit Court. The Hon. W. H. Feud, Circuit Judge, presiding. This case was argued at length, as to the sufficiency and legal effect of the plea, by

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Watkins

The plaintiffs in error being sued by the Bank, upon a note which they had made payable to her, interposed a plea, setting up certain matters in abatement. The plea, on motion of the plaintiff below, was stricken from the files, to which the defendants excepted, and suffered final judgment.

Inasmuch as the plea, re-instated upon the record by the bill of exceptions, appears to be applicable to the action, and, for aught that appears, pleaded in apt time, good in form, signed by counsel and verified by affidavit; in short, having all the formal requisites of a plea, our opinion is, that it…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Pope v. TunstallSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1840
  2. Sillivant & Thorn v. ReardonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1843
  3. Means v. CromwellSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1838

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