Shacklett v. Polk
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Tunica County. Hon. C. C. Shackleford, Judge. The defendant in error, a married woman residing in Tennessee, owned and possessed a separate estate, real and personal both in Tennessee, and in Tunica county, Mississippi. During the war she was planting cotton on her farm in Mississippi.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Tunica County. Hon. C. C. Shackleford, Judge. The defendant in error, a married woman residing in Tennessee, owned and possessed a separate estate, real and personal both in Tennessee, and in Tunica county, Mississippi. During the war she was planting cotton on her farm in Mississippi. After the federal troops reached and took possession of Memphis, and occupied Tennessee and part of Mississippi, and on the 16th day of September, 1864, the defendant in error, Mrs. Polk, constituted the plaintiff in error, Shacklett, her agent’to take charge of her cotton crop in…
1Opinion of the CourtSimrall, J.
This was a suit at law, brought by Shacklett against Eebecca Polk, founded upon her promissory note for $10,000, purporting to be for money loaned, dated Columbia, Tennessee, 17th September, 1864, and due twelve months after date.
Several questions are made upon the pleadings, which are intricate and prolix. The case is brought for review to this court, from the decision of the lower court, denying the motion for a new trial. The grounds of that motion present the points of chief contestation on the trial. We have limited our investigation and discussion to those questions.
On the 16th of…
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