Ingraham v. Bowie
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the Vice-Chancery Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, held at the city of Natchez, before the Hon. Benjamin C. Buckley, vice-chancellor.
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On appeal from the Vice-Chancery Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, held at the city of Natchez, before the Hon. Benjamin C. Buckley, vice-chancellor. The appellants filed their hill in the Vice-Chancery Court at Natchez, alleging that the appellee, Allen T. Bowie, in the years 1838 and 1839, executed and delivered several promissory notes to the late President and Directors of the Grand Gulf Railroad and Banking Company, a banking institution incorporated by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, which notes were by the President and Directors of said Bank delivered to…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
The material question, in this case, depends upon the construction to be given to the 11th section of the Statute of Limitations of 1844.
It appears that the several notes sued upon, had been due more than six years before the institution of the suit; and, in order to place them without the operation of the bar, the bill alleges that the defendant, - since their maturity, had been absent from the State for great lengths of time, which are not to be considered in the application of the statute, and without such .time of absence, that six years have not elapsed since the maturity of any of the…
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