New Orleans Gas Light & Banking Co. v. Hudson

Jared Y. Sanders, is appellant from a judgment rendered against him, as the second endorser of a note drawn by one John D. Hart, to the order of, and endorsed by Benjamin Hudson, his co-defendant. The record shows, that on the 13lh of October, 1842, a judgment was entered up, with the consent of the counsel of the first endorser, with a six months’ stay of execution, but, as it had through mistake been made to apply to both defendants, it was on the following day set aside, so far as concerned Sanders, who immediately filed an answer, pleading the general issue, the illegality of the protest,…