Barthe v. Succession of Lacroix

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Spencer, J.

Plaintiff was for a number of years a trusted employee-of the deceased Lacroix. His wages appear to have been only fifteen dollars per month. In 1864, Lacroix being in bad health and sick, sent for two friends, Garlepied and Reyff, and told them he felt under obligations to plaintiff and directed to be drawn up and attested by them a-note in plaintiffs favor for five hundred dollars, payable at his (Lacroix’s)death. The note was so drawn, signed by Lacroix, and delivered to plaintiff, who kept it until it was destroyed with his other effects…