Pleasants v. Pendleton
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action on the Case, brought by William G. Pendleton, in Iho Superior Court of Law for Henrico Ralston 8? Pleasants. The Declaration contained various counts. The first count demanded 416 dollars 50 cents, on account of one hundred and nineteen barrels of fine flour, sold Defendants at that price, and alleged an assumpsit to pay that sum for the flour.
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This was an action on the Case, brought by William G. Pendleton, in Iho Superior Court of Law for Henrico Ralston 8? Pleasants. The Declaration contained various counts. The first count demanded 416 dollars 50 cents, on account of one hundred and nineteen barrels of fine flour, sold Defendants at that price, and alleged an assumpsit to pay that sum for the flour. The second count was for the same quantity of flour, and charged an assumpsit to pay so much money as the flour was reasonably worth, with an averment that it was reasonably worth the said sum of 416 dollars 50 cents. The third count…
1Opinion of the Court
The Judges delivered their opinions. *
Judge Cakk.
The Appellee sued the Appellant in Assumpsit, on a .contract for so much flour sold. had several counts, some special, some general. The Jury found a general verdict for the Plaintiff for @416 50, on which Judgment was rendered. On a subsequent day of the Term, the Counsel for the Defendant, with the consent of the opposing Counsel, tendered a Bill of Exceptions to sundry opinions of the Court, given on the trial. The Bill sets out at large what the evidence was intended to prove, and on this statement, several motions for instruction to the J…
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