Fullerton v. President of the Bank of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was a writ of error brought to reversé a judgment rendered in the Circuit Court of the United States,-for the District of Ohio, in favour of the Bank of the-United States, the present defendants in error. The declaration contains a common count for money lent and advanced. The plea is non assumpsenmt.
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THIS was a writ of error brought to reversé a judgment rendered in the Circuit Court of the United States,-for the District of Ohio, in favour of the Bank of the-United States, the present defendants in error. The declaration contains a common count for money lent and advanced. The plea is non assumpsenmt. There is another plea of non assumpsit,' filed by H. Fullerton alone, and -'under it, a notice, that he will off-set a.' large sum of money* 83957 33s, due by the bank to the said Fullerton, being the avails of a certain noté(the note on which the action was brought) which was discounted by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
delivered the opinion of the Court.—
This cause comes up from the Circuit Court of Ohio, on a writ of error. The record exhibits a judgment recovered by the . defendants here, against the plaintiffs, in an action for money lent and advanced.' The plea was non assumpsit, with notice of a discount, and a verdict for plaintiff below.
The errors assigned arise upon various bills of exception, the first of which was taken to the evidence offered to maintain an action, in these words, 4< The plaintiff in support of his action, offered in evidence the following promissory note drawn by Isaac Cook, and…
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