Mississippi Supreme Court January 15, 1845 (Morrison v. Ives ex rel. Jones)

Mr. Chief Justice Sharkey

delivered the opinion of the court-

The declaration contains a special count, and also the money counts, the instrument sued on being in the following words: “ Received of Thomas B. Ives, by the hands of H. McRee, five hundred dollars, in addition to four hundred, making nine hundred dollars, on my cotton, to be delivered at Sardinia, at ten cents per lb.