GROVES ET AL. v. SLAUGHTER


40 U.S. 449 (____)

15 Pet. 449

MOSES GROVES AND JAMES GRAHAM, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. ROBERT SLAUGHTER, DEFENDANT IN ERROR. JOHN W. BROWN, MOSES GROVES, R.M. ROBERTS, AND JAMES GRAHAM, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. ROBERT SLAUGHTER, DEFENDANT IN ERROR.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cases were argued by Mr. Gilpin and Mr. Walker, for the plaintiffs in error; and by Mr. Jones, Mr. Clay, and Mr. Webster, for the defendants.

Mr. Clay, for the defendant in error.


Mr. Justice THOMPSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

On the 5th of April, 1838, a suit was commenced by the defendant in error, against the plaintiffs in error, in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Louisiana, upon a note, a copy of which is set out in the record, as follows:

Natchez, December 20th, 1836. ...

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