Lee v. Dozier
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to tbe Circuit Court of Hinds county. Hon. John Watts, judge. The action is founded on a promissory note, of which the following is a copy: $1800.00 December 30, 1859. On the first day of February next I promise to pay James T. Dozier or order eighteen hundred dollars for value received. ' JohN G. Lee. The declaration is in the usual form. At the May Term of the court, 1860, defendant Lee pleaded the general issue.
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of Hinds county. Hon. John Watts, judge. The action is founded on a promissory note, of which the following is a copy: $1800.00 December 30, 1859. On the first day of February next I promise to pay James T. Dozier or order eighteen hundred dollars for value received. ' JohN G. Lee. The declaration is in the usual form. At the May Term of the court, 1860, defendant Lee pleaded the general issue. At the November Term, 1860, he filed the following pleas: “ And now at this day, etc., until, etc., comes the said plaintiff by his attorney, and the said defendant by his…
1Opinion of the Court
Ellett J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The declaration in this case is upon a promissory note. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and at a subsequent term filed two special pleas, as pleas jpms dernier contmuamee. The first of these avers that the note sued on was given in payment of land in Louisiana, and that prior to the making of the note, the plaintiff had executed a title bond, a copy of which is filed and prayed to be made a part of the plea, which instrument the defendant, a non-resident of the State of Louisiana, and ignorant of its laws, understood and supposed to be…
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