C. Yale, Jr., & Co. v. Howard

The defendant obtained judgment against plaintiffs for •4f six thousand pounds of ginned cotton, strictly middling, or in default ■thereof the sum of three thousand one hundred and twenty dollars, ■the value thereof,” and caused execution to issue. Two days after -execution was issued the plaintiffs took a devolutive appeal, and had the judgment reversed, on the ground that it was enforcing a contract, the consideration of which was Confederate treasury notes.

A few days after the execution issued and.an appeal was taken, a -cotton broker in New Orleans wrote as follows to the sheriff:

“General…