Swann v. Swann

This suit is founded on a promissory note of which the defendant is the maker and the plaintiff the payee. The defense is that the note was executed on the Lord’s day. The proof shows the note was executed on that day in the state of Tennessee, where the parties to it then resided, for the consideration of a valid pre*300existing debt due from tbe defendant to the plaintiff. There is no place of payment fixed in the note.

In Tucker v. West, 29 Ark. 386, a note executed in this state on the Lord’s day was held to be void under the statute. This court takes judicial notice of the laws of the several…