Clay v. Ballard
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the Commercial Court of New-Orleans, Watts, J. This was an action against Ballard, for the sum ot $4,000, with interest, from the 10th of March, 1841, on the following obligation, annexed to the petition: “ New-Orleans, January 9, 1841. “ We, R. C. Ballard and Robert Slaughter, promise to pay to Henry Clay, Esq., the sum of five thousand dollars, to wit: Rice C. Ballard paying four thousand dollars, part thereof, and Rpbert Slaughter paying one thousand dollars,…
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Appeal from the Commercial Court of New-Orleans, Watts, J. This was an action against Ballard, for the sum ot $4,000, with interest, from the 10th of March, 1841, on the following obligation, annexed to the petition: “ New-Orleans, January 9, 1841. “ We, R. C. Ballard and Robert Slaughter, promise to pay to Henry Clay, Esq., the sum of five thousand dollars, to wit: Rice C. Ballard paying four thousand dollars, part thereof, and Rpbert Slaughter paying one thousand dollars, the balance there'of, in addition to his fee already stipulated and agreed upon, in the case of Moses Groves v.' Robert…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The defendant, having an interest in the question involved in the case of Groves v. Slaughter, then pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, in which the plaintiff, together with other eminent counsel, was engaged for the defendant in error, and before the argument of the case, enclosed to him his conditional obligation for $4,000, as an extra fee. The condition expressed on the face of the obligation, as will be seen by reference to the note, in the statement of facts, was, “ that the decision of the said court, in the said case, settle fully the question as to the validity of all…
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