Case ID: ky-op_5/html/0482-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Hardin :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

George Hazelrigg v. J. W. Prater, etc.
    Bills and Notes — Payment and Discharge — Confederate Currency.
    A payment on a note in confederate currency, made and accepted ■within the military lines of the confederate states is valid.
    APPEAL FROM MORGAN CIRCUIT COURT.
    April 11, 1871.
    
      Hazelrigg, for appellant.
    
    
      Botts, for appellee.
    
   Opinion by

Judge Hardin :

The evidence sustains the conclusion that the plaintiff’s intestate, Thomas H. Hazelrigg, while residing at Whitville, Virginia, in 1862, received of William Lykins, through George Cox in Virginia, $494, or about that sum, in confederate currency, as a payment on the notes sued on in this action.

This payment, so made and accepted, within the military lines of the confederate states, was a valid payment of the promised sum so received, according to reported decisions of this court; and the judgment rendered for the plaintiff seems to embrace the full amount of the balance due upon the notes.

Wherefore the judgment is affirmed.