Jones v. Watkins
Supreme Court of Alabama
These were appeals from decrees of the Circuit Court of Madison county, sitting in Equity. The main points being the same in all the cases, they were all taken up for argument at the same time.
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These were appeals from decrees of the Circuit Court of Madison county, sitting in Equity. The main points being the same in all the cases, they were all taken up for argument at the same time. The bills filed in 1823, 1824 and 1825, respectively charge: That in 1818 and 1819, the complainants gave their notes to the defendants in the several bills named, or some Qf them, for the sums of money in the bills stated, payable at certain periods after the dates of the notes, with interest at three and at five per cent a month, and at various other high rates. In some of the cases, to carry…
1Opinion of the Court
LIPSCOMB, Chief Justice.
These cases were argued at last term with much zeal and ability. The time consumed by the argument had so encroached on the term, and so much exhausted the members of the Court, that it was thought best to retain them under advisement. By this course we have lost much of the advantage that would have been derived from the argument ; many of the impressions of the moment have been erased or impaired by the action of mind and feeling on other subjects. If, however, it be true that Judges ■should be all head and no heart, the delay is not to be regretted, as more than an…
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