M'Kinney v. Springer

This was an action of indebitatus assumpsit, brought by Riley Springer, surviving partner, &c., against Joseph Ml Kinney. The declaration was filed in April, 1844. The defendant pleaded the general issue and various other pleas. The sixth plea is as follows: The defendant says actio non, because he says that the Revised Statutes of the state, passed at the 27th session of the general assembly, were received by the clerk of the Decatur Circuit Court, at his office in Greensburgh in said county, on the 6th of March, 1844 ; and that a record of the time of the receipt of said statutes was then…