Lepretre v. Mioton

The plaintiffs demand payment for five boxes of sugar, sold and delivered to the defendant.

The general issue was pleaded; and the plaintiffs required to declare on oath, whether they had any personal knowledge of the sale and delivery; and if they had not, who was their informant ?

The plaintiff, Aubert, answered, it was in his personal knowledge, that the sugar mentioned in the petition was sold and delivered to the defendant, on the 15th of June, 1822, when *714the defendant came to their store, and applied for the sugar : That it being in the plaintiffs’ house, in Jefferson street, the…