Beal v. Alexander

This suit was brought against the defendant, a resident of Mississippi, as the endorser of a note drawn to his order by the Bank of Grenada, located in that State, at Grenada, and made payable at the counting-house of the plaintiff, in the city of New Orleans. A number of bales of cotton were attached in the hands of Nugent, Turpin & Watt, as garnishees, which were afterwards bonded by the latter. The defendant, through the counsel appointed to represent him, pleaded the general issue, and averred, that he had been induced to endorse the note sued on under the idea conveyed and held out to…