Sims v. Hundley
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. In 1835, the following notes were executed: — $ 4,000. Port Gibson, 2d May, 1835. On the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, I promise to pay, to the order of Passmore Hoopes, four thousand dollars, value received, negotiable and payable at the office of the Planters’ Bank at Port Gibson. H. N. Spencek.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. In 1835, the following notes were executed: — $ 4,000. Port Gibson, 2d May, 1835. On the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, I promise to pay, to the order of Passmore Hoopes, four thousand dollars, value received, negotiable and payable at the office of the Planters’ Bank at Port Gibson. H. N. Spencek. Indorsed: Passmore Hoopes, Benj. G. Sims. $ 5,169. Port Gibson, May 2d, 1835. Twelve months after the fifteenth February, 1836,1 promise…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This case is brought up by writ of error directed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi, .upon a judgment obtained by the defendant in error against the plaintiff for the amount of four notes, dated May 2, . 1835, indorsed by the plaintiff in error to the defendant ; and also for one other note drawn by the former in favor of the latter, dated December 14, 1835.
It appears by the record that three questions of law were raised at the trial, which are now before this court upon the writ of error, the testimony as to the residence of the plaintiff upon…
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