Bartlett v. New Orleans Canal & Banking Co.

This is an action against the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company, to recover the amount of certain hank notes, together with twelve per cent interest thereon, since the general suspension of specie payments, in October, 1839. The notes in question were presented for payment by a notary public, on the 1st of February, 1842, .who demanded the principal together with the interest, as above stated, which was refused as to the interest, but the principal was tendered in legal coin, and refused.

There was judgment for the plaintiff for the principal sum, but without any interest or costs, and he…