Landry v. President of Jefferson College

The defendants are appellants from a judgment by default regularly taken against them, and made final after the expiration of three judicial days from the day it was entered. The plaintiff’s claim being based on a draft for $325, accepted by the treasurer of Jefferson College, to be paid by that institution, he had only to prove the signatures of the treasurer and of the drawer and endorser of the draft. As from the certificate of the clerk of the court, a qua, it appears, that parol evidence was produced, but not taken down in writing at the trial, we must presume that the plaintiff’s claim…