Raymond v. Administrator of the Estate of Isham
Supreme Court of Vermont
This cause came to the county court upon an appeal from commissioners, and tried upon facts agreed upon, to wit: 'That the account on the books of said Raymond, deducting the credit, amounts to $467 90 And the account on the books of E. Isham, deducting the credit, amounts to 150 97 ^Leaving a balance as principal, ($316 93 We find the accounts of the parties commenced in 1816, and ■continued in mutual deal until the year 1830. The account of the plaintiff is for…
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This cause came to the county court upon an appeal from commissioners, and tried upon facts agreed upon, to wit: 'That the account on the books of said Raymond, deducting the credit, amounts to $467 90 And the account on the books of E. Isham, deducting the credit, amounts to 150 97 ^Leaving a balance as principal, ($316 93 We find the accounts of the parties commenced in 1816, and ■continued in mutual deal until the year 1830. The account of the plaintiff is for merchandize, and that of E. Isham is for services as a physician. If interest is to be cast on the running account, after the usual…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Williams, Ch. J.
'The question in this case is, whether the plaintiff is entitled to interest on his account.
By the rules or practice of the English courts, interest probably would not be allowed in a case similar to this, although there is no subject on which the law is more unsettled. It is considered by some of their elementary writers, that there is, at this day, no settled law upon the subject of allowing interest. In the case of Bates vs. Starr, 2 Vt. R. 536, it was observed, that the rule in relation to interest in the English courts and in the…
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