White v. The Governor

This was an action of assumpsit, brought by Benjamin Fitzpatrick, as Governor of the State of Alabama, and afterwards continued in the name of the present defendant in error, who succeeded him, against the plaintiffs in error, to recover on a promissory note executed by them on the 28th day of March 1S43, for three hundred and fifty dollars, due the 1st January 1S44, and payable to-Benj. Fitzpatrick, Governor of the State of Alabama, and his successors in office, with interest from date, and which purports to be due on account of the sale of Supreme Court reports.

It appears by a bill of…