Collins v. Loyd
Supreme Court of Georgia
Assumpsit, in Fulton Superior Court. Tried before Judge Bum,., at the April Term, i860. James A. Collins brought an action of assumpsit in Fulton Superior Court against James Loyd, to recover the sum due on a promissory note given by the defendant, payable to the plaintiff, dated the 27th of July, 1851, and due the 25th of December, 1852 for eight hundred dollars, with interest from the date of the note.
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Assumpsit, in Fulton Superior Court. Tried before Judge Bum,., at the April Term, i860. James A. Collins brought an action of assumpsit in Fulton Superior Court against James Loyd, to recover the sum due on a promissory note given by the defendant, payable to the plaintiff, dated the 27th of July, 1851, and due the 25th of December, 1852 for eight hundred dollars, with interest from the date of the note. There was a credit endorsed on the note of “forty dollars and twenty-five cents, amount of J. Gilbert’s note,” and dated June 1st, 1857. The defendant pleaded a set-off ’ against the…
1Opinion of the Court
*131By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.,
delivering the opinion.
Collins sued Loyd on a promissory note for $800, given ia July, 1851, and due 25th of December, 1852, with interest from date — the consideration for which was a lot sold in the-city of Atlanta, by Collins to Loyd.
To this action the defendant pleaded a set-off of $281, paid by him, for the plaintiff, to one Joshua Gilbert, on a medical-account, due by Loving G. Collins to Dr. Gilbert., As a reply to this plea of set-off the plaintiff proposed to-prove the following facts, to- wit: That previous to the year-1847 he and Loyd had been partners in…
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