Sheehy v. Mandeville
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district oí .Columbia sitting at Alexandria. This cause having been sent back to the Circuit Court, by the mandate of this Court, at February term 1810,† commanding that Court to render judgment for the Plaintiff pn his first count and to award a writ of enquiry of damages, upon executing that writ of enquiry the Plaintiff produced the, following note.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district oí .Columbia sitting at Alexandria. This cause having been sent back to the Circuit Court, by the mandate of this Court, at February term 1810,† commanding that Court to render judgment for the Plaintiff pn his first count and to award a writ of enquiry of damages, upon executing that writ of enquiry the Plaintiff produced the, following note. “ Alexandria 17th July,180%. “‘Sixty days of ter.¿ate, I promise to pay to Mr. James “ Sjieehy, or order, six hundred and four dollars and « ninety qrie cents, for value received, negotiable in the «Bank of…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.
Delivered the opinion of the Court as follows: •
This suit was instituted on a promissory note, executed by the Defendant, and made payable to the Plaintiff. : After describing the note accurately, with the exception of thé time when it became payable, which is altogether omitted, the declaration proceeds, in the usual: form to state, that the Defendant, being so liable, assumed to pay the siun mentioned in the note when he should be thereunto required, &c.
To this count a special plea was filed which, on demurrer, was held insufficient. Judgment, on the demurrer, .being…
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