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  "id": 8727735,
  "name": "State Bank vs. Brown",
  "name_abbreviation": "State Bank v. Brown",
  "decision_date": "1851-07",
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  "first_page": "94",
  "last_page": "95",
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    "id": 8808,
    "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court"
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    "name_long": "Arkansas",
    "name": "Ark."
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    "parties": [
      "State Bank vs. Brown."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Soott\ndelivered the opinion of the Court.\nThe only questioned presented in this cause, was determined in the case of The State Bank vs. Carson et al., (5 Eng. R. 479.) Let the judgment be affirmed.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Soott"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Bevens, for the plaintiff.",
      "Byers & Patterson, contra,"
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    "head_matter": "State Bank vs. Brown.\nA suit is commenced by tlie filing of tlie declaration, and tlie voluntary appearance of defendant, or tlie issuance of the writ \u2014 filing the declaration alone is not the commencement of an action.\nIt is no answer to a plea of limitation that plaintiff filed his declaration before the cause of action was barred, and instructed the clerk to issue a writ immediately, but the clerk did not do so until the limitation expired, as held in State Bank vs. Carson et al., 5 Eng. 479.\nWrit of Error to White Circuit Court.\nDebt, by the Bank of the State, of Arkansas, against Harrison Brown, commenced in the White Circuit Court 24th of March, 1849, on a note due July 1st, 1844.\nBrown pleaded that the cause of action did not accrue within three years, &c.\nPlaintiffs replied that, on the 24th June, 1847, and within three years next after the cause of action accrued, she filed her petition in debt in the Independence Circuit Court thereon, and instructed the clerk to issue a writ immediately, and that the clerk, on the 16th day of September, 1847, issued the writ, &c. That, on the 6th March, 1849, she suffered a non-suit therein, and on the 24th day of the same month, she commenced this suit.\nDemurrer sustained to the replication, and final judgment for defendant.\nThe cause was determined below before Hon. Wm. 0. Soott, then Judge.\nBevens, for the plaintiff.\nByers & Patterson, contra,\ncited State Bank vs. Carson & Frost, 5 Eng. 479."
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