Crawford v. Branch of the Bank of Alabama at Mobile
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Mobile. This was a proceeding by notice and motion under the charter of the Bank, to recover a judgment against the plaintiff in error, as the drawer of a bill of exchange, drawn by him at Mobile, the 15th April, 1841, on Wm. C. Dickinson of Mobile, requesting him to pay to Henry G. Davis, or order, nineteen hundred and fifty-two 92-100 dollars, on the 20th December next thereafter, payable at the Merchants’ Bank of the City of New York.
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Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Mobile. This was a proceeding by notice and motion under the charter of the Bank, to recover a judgment against the plaintiff in error, as the drawer of a bill of exchange, drawn by him at Mobile, the 15th April, 1841, on Wm. C. Dickinson of Mobile, requesting him to pay to Henry G. Davis, or order, nineteen hundred and fifty-two 92-100 dollars, on the 20th December next thereafter, payable at the Merchants’ Bank of the City of New York. The cause was tried on the plea of non assumpsit. On the trial the defendant below excepted to the ruling of the Court.…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
— The notice informs the defendant, that tbe Branch of the Bank, &c., Will move for judgment against him, “at the next term of the Circuit Court to be holden for said county of Mobile, on the sixth Monday after the fourth Monday in March, 1841, and on the seventh Monday of said term.” This notice was received by the sheriff of Mobile on the 20th of April, 1843, and executed on the 7th of the succeeding month. In the transcript there is a plea entitled, Fall Term, 1S42, which was interposed by the defendant below in propria persona; at the foot of which the following memorandum is attested by…
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