Tennessee Supreme Court April 15, 1872 (Gaylord v. Memphis & Arkansas River Packet Co.)

Nicholson, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case was commenced before a Justice of the Peace, in Shelby county, on a note of the Packet Co., being a Corporation, for about $1,600, reduced by *560credits to less than $500. The note was given to one Dumont, in part payment for a steamboat, built by Dumont for the Packet Co.