M'Cutchin v. Batterton

This was an action of debt upon a single bill obligatory, for $100. The defendant did not appear, and judgment was entered against him by default, for the debt in the decoration mentioned, to be discharged by the payment of one cent damages. The bill of exceptions, as well as the entry of the judgment, states, that the plaintiff produced no evidence of his debt; or, in other words, that he refused to produce the obligation declared on, and, for that reason, the judgment was entered as above stated, to be discharged by the payment of nominal damages. We are clearly of opinion, that the…