Fulton v. Hammond

In 1867 Robert Farquharson, clerk and master of . chancery court of Lincoln county, Tennessee, brought this suit against the defendant, alleging that the said defendant received from the plaintiff for collection on the twenty-third of August, 1859, a certain bond executed by Robert Johnson and others, on February 16, 1858, for the payment one day after date of $3,455.45 to the plaintiff, and that defendant executed to the plaintiff a receipt, of which the following is a copy:

“ Received of R. Farquharson, clerk and master of chancery court at Fayetteville, the following note, viz.:

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