Williams v. Henderson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court of the first judicial district. This is an aotion against the drawer of a hill of exchange, drawn at [558] Warrenton, the 23d December, 1836, on Brander, McKenna & Wright, of Mew Orleans, and hy them accepted; payable to the order of George Henderson, 373 days after date. The hill was duly protested for non-payment at maturity, and on the 1st Movember, 1840, this suit was instituted against Wm.
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Appeal from the court of the first judicial district. This is an aotion against the drawer of a hill of exchange, drawn at [558] Warrenton, the 23d December, 1836, on Brander, McKenna & Wright, of Mew Orleans, and hy them accepted; payable to the order of George Henderson, 373 days after date. The hill was duly protested for non-payment at maturity, and on the 1st Movember, 1840, this suit was instituted against Wm. Henderson, the drawer, for the sum of $3600, with costs of protest and interest; for all of which the plaintiff prays judgment. The defendant, without admitting any of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSimon, J.
Defendant is appellant from a judgment rendered against him for the amount of a bill of exchange, by him drawn at Warrentown, on the 28d of December, 1836, on the commercial house of Brander, McKenna & Wright, to the order of George Henderson, and subsequently indorsed by the latter.
Our attention is first called to the declinatory exception taken by said defendant, on the ground that his legal domicil and principal establishment are, and have been for a long time, in the parish of Oarroll, and not in the parish and city of New Orleans, in which, he insists, he is not suable.
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