White v. Hart
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia. the reliance of that party having apparently been on the argument contained in the opinion given by Brown, C. J., in behalf of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court.
The suit was instituted by the plaintiff in error on the 10th of January, 1866, in the Superior Court of Chattooga County. He declared upon a promissory note made to him by the defendants in error for twelve hundred and thirty dollars, dated February 9th, 1859, and payable on the 1st of March, A.D. 1860. The defendant pleaded in abatement that “ the consideration of the note was a slave,” and that “by the present Constitution of Georgia, made and adopted since the last pleadings in this ease, the court is prohibited to take and exercise…
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