Mississippi Supreme Court December 15, 1897 (Lay v. Filmore)

Woods, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The declaration was in assumpsit on a due bill for $219.85.

The defendants pleaded as follows: (1) The general issue; (2) payment; (3) payment and release; (4) want of consideration; (5) denial of interest in the instrument sued on in the plaintiff, and that the amount due had been paid to the real owner of the debt, and (6) notice of set-off.