Lonsdale v. Brown
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
[This was an action upon a bill of exchange. In a former suit before the court, Case No. 8,493, there was a verdict for the plaintiff. Tbe ease is now heard upon motion of defendant for arrest of judgment and for new trial.]
1Opinion of the Court
WASHINGTON, Circuit Justice.
This case comes before tbe court upon two rules to show causo, 1. Why the judgment should not be arrested. And 2. Why a new trial should not be granted.
1. In support of tbe first rule, certain exceptions were taken to the second, third, fourth and fifth additional counts in the declaration. We shall direct our attention principally to the fourth count, because this was the one which the counsel seemed to consider the most faulty. It states, “that the defendant being on the 1st of November, 1809, at Philadelphia, indebted to the plaintiff on a certain bill of…
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