Beauchamp v. Comfort
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Leaké county. Hon. Wm. Hancock, judge. Defendant in error sued to recover from plaintiff in error the value of five bales of cotton. The declaration sets out the written contract referred to in the opinion of the court. The plaintiff in error pleaded: 1st. Non assumpsit. 2d. That the contract sued on contemplated payment in Confederate money, which, at thé time, was worth thirty to one, as compared with gold coin or United States currency. 3d.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Leaké county. Hon. Wm. Hancock, judge. Defendant in error sued to recover from plaintiff in error the value of five bales of cotton. The declaration sets out the written contract referred to in the opinion of the court. The plaintiff in error pleaded: 1st. Non assumpsit. 2d. That the contract sued on contemplated payment in Confederate money, which, at thé time, was worth thirty to one, as compared with gold coin or United States currency. 3d. That the cotton was wholly destroyed without the neglect of plaintiff in error. 4th. That the consideration of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJeffords, J.
• The declaration in this case alleges, that on the 17th day of June, AJD. 1864, said defendant received from the plaintiff the sum of twelve hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents, in full payment for five bales of cotton, weighing in the aggregate 2,577 pounds, which said cotton, after having been thus paid for, was left in the care and keeping of said defendant, to be by him kept in good order, and to be delivered by the defendant to the plaintiff or his order, when called on to deliver the same. Plaintiff avers that the defendant has wholly failed and refused to deliver said…
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