Simms v. Clark
Illinois Supreme Court
The defendants in error brought, their action in debt, at the March term, 1849, of the Morgan county Circuit Court, upon a judgment theretofore obtained in the said Court, for the sum of six hundred and eighty-four dollars and eight Gents, against the plaintiff in error. To this action Simms pleaded payment and satisfaction of said judgment.
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The defendants in error brought, their action in debt, at the March term, 1849, of the Morgan county Circuit Court, upon a judgment theretofore obtained in the said Court, for the sum of six hundred and eighty-four dollars and eight Gents, against the plaintiff in error. To this action Simms pleaded payment and satisfaction of said judgment. To this plea the defendants in error replied, that Simms paid a bank note to the plaintiffs, of the denomination of fifty dollars, being of the Miners’ Bank of Potts-ville, in the county of Schuylkill, in the state of Pennsylvania, (particularly…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Mr. Justice Trumbull :
This was an action of debt, brought by the appellees to recover from the appellant the amount of a fifty dollar counterfeit bill, which the latter had paid them upon a judgment which the}' held against him. The jury found for the plaintiffs below, and the refusal of the Court to set aside their verdict is now assigned for error. The plaintiffs alone introduced evidence before the jury, which it is insisted was insufficient to warrant their finding. The facts as disclosed by the record are briefly these : Simms, who was indebted to the appellees in the sum of…
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