Townsend v. Cocke

One question here is as to the payment of $1,039.50 made the 6th of December, 1858, to the Bank of Tennessee at Athens, and whether by the complainant, William S Townsend, or by the defendant Cocke. If by the latter, it is claimed as a credit upon the debt due by him to the complainants ; if by the former, it is conceded no credit is to be given on that account. The Chancellor was of opinion that this payment had been made by William S. Townsend, and so decireed, and in this opinion we concur.

*154The facts, as connected with this payment, are these :

On the 24th of November, 1855, the said…