Woods v. Bailey
Supreme Court of Florida
This cause was brought up by appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, made November 8th, 1849, by the Hon. Thomas Baltzell, Judge, sitting in Chancery. The facts of the case are so fully and clearly set out in the opinion pf this Court, pronounced by Justice Lancaster, that any other statement is deemed unnecessary.
1Opinion of the CourtLancaster, J.
On the 15th day of November, 1844, John Bellamy, the intestate of complainant, filed his bill of complaint in the then Superior Court for Jefferson County, alleging the indebtedness to him of the defendant, Ransom J. Roberts, for large sums of money, on four several notes, as in his said bill is mentioned, amounting together to about $9,717 54. One of which said notes, he describes thus : “ On a note dated Aucilla, 26th March, 1840, for <f4,000, payable on the 1st of January, 1845, with interest at ten per cent, per annum from 1st of January, 1841, to the order of said Roberts, made by one W.…
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