Jones v. Perkins
Mississippi Supreme Court
IN error from the circuit court of Hinds county; Hon. R. Barnett, judge. This was a suit instituted in the circuit court of Hinds county, by Dennis Perkins & Co., against John P. Jones and Duncan McLauren, Jr., upon a promissory note executed by the defendants at Jackson, Miss., on the 12th of May, 1850, for ¡§1,050, and due twelve months after date to Dennis Perkins & Co., of New York.
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IN error from the circuit court of Hinds county; Hon. R. Barnett, judge. This was a suit instituted in the circuit court of Hinds county, by Dennis Perkins & Co., against John P. Jones and Duncan McLauren, Jr., upon a promissory note executed by the defendants at Jackson, Miss., on the 12th of May, 1850, for ¡§1,050, and due twelve months after date to Dennis Perkins & Co., of New York. Jones and McLauren owed the firm of Dennis Perkins & Co. one other promissory note due for the sum of $1,050, and the two notes together amounted to the sum of something over two thousand dollars; and upon the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice FiSHER
The plaintiffs below, Dennis Perkins & Co., brought a suit in the circuit court of Hinds county, upon a promissory note made by the defendants,' for the sum of $1,050, dated Jackson, May 12, 1850, and payable twelve months after date.
The defendants introduced on the trial the deposition of E. M. Avery, for the purpose of proving that Dennis Perkins & Co. had agreed in the early part of the summer of 1851 to accept and receive in full payment of their entire indebtedness, amounting to over $2,000 against Jones, the sum of $1,500, to be paid to the plaintiffs in the city of New York. f Witness…
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