Kugler v. Taylor

This suit is brought on the following instrument: “Received, East Eeliciana, La., November 15,1862, of Jules Bonnecage, agent of P. Machct, of Baton Rouge, the sum of five thousand dollars, in current funds, in full of fifty bales cotton, weighing twenty-five thousand pounds, being an average of four hundred pounds per bale, and twenty-five cents per pound. The cotton to remain on premises protected from the weather until delivered. (Signed) Seymour Taylor. ”

Plaintiff prays for the delivery of the cotton, or the payment of said sum of $5,000.

The defense is that no part of said sum was paid,…