Keeble v. Bailey

This suit was originally brought before a justice of the peace on a note or due bill in the following words, viz.: “ Yazoo City, October 12, 1843. Due Holmes, Bedford & Co., ninety-eight dollars and sixty-five cents. (Signed) A. F. Keeble.”

The summons issued on the 24th day of March, 1848. The-defendant appeared, and pleaded the statute of limitation. .The-justice of the peace overruled the plea, and stated “ that it wat,. ' from the fact of the note in this case having been filed for collection on the 11th day of October, 1847, about one and a half o’clock A. M.; and as a plea filed is…