Duncan v. Helm

By petition filed in this case on the eighth March, 1866, the plaintiff, alleging himself to be a resident and citizen of Mississippi, claimed to recover from the defendant, also of Mississippi, the amount due upon two mortgage notes, and asked for a sale of the property mortgaged.

One note fell due J anuary 4,1861, and is credited with a partial payment ; the other fell due January 4,1862. They are dated in the parish of Tensas, and payable in New Orleans;- they are the sixth and seventh of a series of eight notes, amounting in all to $49,500; and are secured by a mortgage upon a plantation…