Generes v. Campbell

78 U.S. 193

20 L.Ed. 110

11 Wall. 193

GENERES

v.

CAMPBELL.

December Term, 1870

ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus:

Campbell sued Generes, November, 1868, in the court below, as indorser of a promissory note, given as the price of certain slaves, and executed at New Orleans April 4, 1861, payable in that city two years after date, at the office of Abat, Generes & Co.

The petition averred that when the note became due, April 7th, 1863, there was a civil war existing in Louisiana and other States of the Union; that all intercourse between New Orleans and the…