Proudfit v. Picket
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM MEMPHIS. There was a decree in this cause in favor of complainants. The cause is brought to this Court by several of the defendants. Chancellor W. M. Smith, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtAndrew McClain, J.
The complainant, Eliza Proudfit, filed her -original bill as executrix of William Proudfit, in the Chancery Court at Memphis, charging that the firms of Harris, Hunt & Co., (of which firm defendant, Babb, was a member,) and Picket, Wormly & Co., the first named firm as makers, and the last named firm as indorsers, owed to her testator a note for fifty-two hundred and fifty dollars, dated about November, 1861, and falling due between the 20th and 30th of May, 1862; that this note, at maturity, had been duly protested for non-payment, and notice given to the proper parties. It is further…
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