Campbell v. Mississippi Union Bank
Mississippi Supreme Court
IN ERROR from the circuit court of the county of Rankin. Trial before Hon. B. Harris. This was an action of assumpsit, instituted by the bank, on a promissory note made by B. Campbell and others, dated the 18th of March, 1839, negotiable and payable at the banking house in Jackson, and by the bank discounted.
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IN ERROR from the circuit court of the county of Rankin. Trial before Hon. B. Harris. This was an action of assumpsit, instituted by the bank, on a promissory note made by B. Campbell and others, dated the 18th of March, 1839, negotiable and payable at the banking house in Jackson, and by the bank discounted. The defendants pleaded sis special pleas, as follows: 1. The first plea alleged that3 heretofore, to wit: on the 10th day of July, 1840, a holder of one of the notes of said plaintiffs, commonly called a bank note, which said note was of the denomination of ten dollars, and then due and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sharkey
The defendants in error instituted suit against the plaintiffs in error on a promissory note, dated the 18th of March, 1839, and due nine months after the 19th of April, 1839, negotiated and payable at the banking house of the Union Bank, at Jackson. The defendants below pleaded six special pleas, all of which, for different reasons, bring directly in question the right of the Union Bank to recover on notes discounted by the bank for the accommodation of the makers. To all these pleas the plaintiffs below demurred, and the court sustained the demurrers. The defendants failing to plead…
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