Supreme Court of Louisiana July 15, 1871, No. 199 (Graham v. Tignor)

.Taliaferro, J.

Two of the defendants in this case having puv~ •chased, under an act of the Legislature approved eighteenth March, 1858, one-half of the sixteenth or school section of land within one of the townships lying in the parish of Claiborne, executed, in solido with their surety, nine several promissory notes, each for $88, dated first 'October, 1859, and payable consecutively, one noto