Keary v. the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Memphis
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Mississippi. In the District Court for the southern district of Mississippi, an action was instituted by the President, Directors, and Company of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Memphis, citizens of Tennessee, against the plaintiffs in error,. Hugh M. Keary, Patrick ' F. Keary, and Charles A. Lacoste, citizens of the state of Mississippi, on a promissory note drawn by Hugh M. Keary, and Patrick F.…
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IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Mississippi. In the District Court for the southern district of Mississippi, an action was instituted by the President, Directors, and Company of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Memphis, citizens of Tennessee, against the plaintiffs in error,. Hugh M. Keary, Patrick ' F. Keary, and Charles A. Lacoste, citizens of the state of Mississippi, on a promissory note drawn by Hugh M. Keary, and Patrick F. Keary, ih favour of, and endorsed to the bank by Charles A. Lacoste. The action was afterwards transferred to the Circuit…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the district of Mississippi. The original aGtion is assumpsit upon a promissory note, signed, by Hugh M. Keary and Patrick F. Keary, dated at Pinkneyville, in the state of. Mississippi, on the 18th of February, 1838, whereby (as the declaration alleges) the makers promised twelve months after date, to pay to Charles A. Lacoste, by the name and description of Briggs, Lacoste, and Company, or order,four thousand eight hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifty-five cents, payable and negotiable at the Planters Bank in Natchez, and which note was…
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