Penniston v. City of Jefferson

InsiiEY, J,

The plaintiff claims from the defendant the sum of two-thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents, with interest at the rate of five per cent, per annum, as stated in the-petition, represented by eight certificates, issued by the parish committee-of the Parish of Jefferson, by which, as it is alleged, the city of Jefferson. *159is indebted to W. R. Miller for one certificate, amounting to twenty-four dollars; and to Guy Dreux, late Sheriff of the Parish of Jefferson, for the other seven certificates ; and, further, that of the said eight certificates, the…