Curtice v. Scovel
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Weit oe Error, complaining of a judgment of si justice upon a note for £20, entered upon tbe confession of said Curtice, in favor of said Scovel, in words following, viz. September 11th.
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Weit oe Error, complaining of a judgment of si justice upon a note for £20, entered upon tbe confession of said Curtice, in favor of said Scovel, in words following, viz. September 11th. A. D. 1790 at a court bolden in said Col-chester, Joseph Isham, jr. justice of the peace for New London county present, appeared David Scovel of said Col-chester, Joseph Isham, jr. justice of the peace for New said James should confess a judgment against himself for the sum of £20 lawful money, due to the said David by note dated September 11th A. D. 1790, and accordingly said James did confess judgment for…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Arbitration notes, or notes given to bind a party to abide an award of arbitrators are not notes for the payment of money only — consequently it is now settled by a series of uniform decisions, that such notes although vouched by two witnesses, if for more than £4 are not within the jurisdiction of a single minister of justice to^ try; if for more than £20 they are appealable to the Superior Court. Such notes therefore are not evidence of a subsisting debt, and such was the note in the present case, made and delivered into the hands of the justice, who was one of said…
2Cited by1 opinion
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