Deans v. McLendon
Mississippi Supreme Court
IN error from the Circuit Court of Monroe county. Hon. William L. Harris, judge. On the 26th clay of August, 1852, Bartlett Deans, the plaintiff in error, sued, in the Circuit Court of Monroe county, Lewis McLendon and John T. Brooks, on two promissory notes, executed by them on the 11th day of November, 1848, the one due on the 1st of March, 1850, and the other, 1st of March, 1851, for $675 each.
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IN error from the Circuit Court of Monroe county. Hon. William L. Harris, judge. On the 26th clay of August, 1852, Bartlett Deans, the plaintiff in error, sued, in the Circuit Court of Monroe county, Lewis McLendon and John T. Brooks, on two promissory notes, executed by them on the 11th day of November, 1848, the one due on the 1st of March, 1850, and the other, 1st of March, 1851, for $675 each. To which defendant filed four several pleas, in substance as follows:— 1. That the notes were given to secure the purchase-money of two slaves, “Abram and Aberdeen,” over the age of fifteen years,…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
Tbis writ of error is prosecuted to reverse a judgment rendered in tbe Circuit Court of Monroe county.
Tbe plaintiff in error instituted suit in that court upon two notes, made by tbe defendant in error, wbo pleaded that tbe notes were given to secure tbe price of two slaves, introduced into tbis state in violation of tbe statute of 1822, concerning slaves, free negroes, and mulattoes. Hutcb. Dig. 512. Tbe plaintiff’s demurrer, wbicb was overruled, raises tbe question of tbe illegality of tbe notes.
It is not now to be controverted, that no action…
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