Howard v. Thomas
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF TIIE DISTRICT PRESIDING. This is an injunction suit to stay proceedings of the defendant, by order of seizure and sale. Ón the day of May, 1829, Major Thomas sold to the defendant a tract of land in the parish of Rapides, for seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, with ten per centum interest from the first of March, 1828, until paid.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF TIIE DISTRICT PRESIDING. This is an injunction suit to stay proceedings of the defendant, by order of seizure and sale. Ón the day of May, 1829, Major Thomas sold to the defendant a tract of land in the parish of Rapides, for seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, with ten per centum interest from the first of March, 1828, until paid. The defendant and one A. Holmes, gave their two promissory notes for five hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty three cents each, payable in one and two years, with interest from the first of March,…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiff states that he and one Holmes, in 1829, purchased from the' defendant a tract of land for seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, with interest at ten per centum from the first of March, 1828; and gave in payment a bill of exchange on William Bullitt, of NeW-Orleans, for seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-seven cents, (of which one hundred and seventy-five dollars were for interest on the whole amount up to March 1st, 1829,) and two promissory notes payable to Leroy Stafford, and by him endorsed for five hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents each,…
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