McCollum v. Dillard

The appellants, I. H. & Byers McCollum, filed a suit in the chancery court of Monroe county, setting; up that they were a partnership, and both residents of Lee county, Miss.; that they sold to one of the defendants, M. C. Dillard, twelve head of' mules, and received therefor Dillard’s promissory notes (copies of which are made Exhibits A and B to the bill), but that they retained title to the mules; that the said Dillard paid on the purchase price of the said mules one hundred dollars by check, which check was dishonored, is still outstanding and still due, and is made Exhibit D to the bill;…