Hamilton v. Starkweather
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Motion for a new trial by the defendant, upon exceptions to the charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
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*Hinman, J.
This action was assumpsit on the common counts, but the bill of particulars contained only an item for cash lent, which restricted the plaintiff’s right of recovery, to the count for money lent; and as the defendant insists that the proof did not support that count, the question is, whether the court was correct in charging the jury that the facts claimed by the plaintiff constituted and shewed a loan, in the legal acceptation of the term. These facts are, that the defendant, being under obligation to pay to certain persons several sums of money, amounting in all to the sum…
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