Roland v. Logan
Supreme Court of Alabama
Eiiror to the Circuit Court of Benton. Tried before the Hon. Thomas A. Walker. This was an action of assumpsit, instituted on the 16th Oct. 1847, by the defendant in error, as executor of Thos. A. Powell, deceased, against the plaintiff in error, to recover the amount of a promissory note for $2500, dated, Benton county, Ala., 26th Dec. 1S40, and payable one day after date, to Mildred Hogue, by whom it was endorsed to said Powell.
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Eiiror to the Circuit Court of Benton. Tried before the Hon. Thomas A. Walker. This was an action of assumpsit, instituted on the 16th Oct. 1847, by the defendant in error, as executor of Thos. A. Powell, deceased, against the plaintiff in error, to recover the amount of a promissory note for $2500, dated, Benton county, Ala., 26th Dec. 1S40, and payable one day after date, to Mildred Hogue, by whom it was endorsed to said Powell. The declaration is in the usual form on the note and the endorsement thereof, with the money counts added. Among other pleas the defendant pleaded, first,…
1Opinion of the CourtDargan, C. J.
This action is founded on a promissory note made by the defendant, payable to Mildred Hogue, who endorsed it to the plaintiff’s testator. The evidence showed that Mildred Hogue, the payee, at the time the note was executed, and also, at the time of the endorsement thereof, was a married woman, and that she and her husband lived together in the State of Georgia, until about twelve years ago, when she removed with her children to this. Sate, where she has resided ever since. For some time, she kept a boarding-house, and afterwards managed a small farm for herself, and her children. Jesse Hogue,…
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