Kinney & Goodrich v. Heald

This was an action of assumpsit, commenced by attachment,. brought by the defendant in error, against the plaintiffs, in the Sebastian Circuit Court. The declaration was as follows: “For that, whereas the said plaintiff, on the 19th day of April, 1853, at New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, to wit, at the county of Sebastian, made his bill of exchange in writing, dated on that day, and directed the same to the said defendants, to pay to the order of Hume & Butt, $836 19, and then and there delivered the same to the said Hume & Butt; and the said defendants then and there accepted the…