Hunter v. Parsons
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Livingston Circuit. This was an action of assumpsit brought by Adelbert F. Parsons in the Circuit Court for the county of Livingston against Alexander L. Hunter, upon a promissory note for two hundred dollars, with interest at ten per cent., payable to J. C. Fitzgerald or bearer, on or before the first day of September, 1869, a copy of which was appended to the plaintiff’s declaration.
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Error to Livingston Circuit. This was an action of assumpsit brought by Adelbert F. Parsons in the Circuit Court for the county of Livingston against Alexander L. Hunter, upon a promissory note for two hundred dollars, with interest at ten per cent., payable to J. C. Fitzgerald or bearer, on or before the first day of September, 1869, a copy of which was appended to the plaintiff’s declaration. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and filed with his plea an affidavit denying “ that he ever executed any such note or agreement as the one described and referred to in the notice annexed to…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell, Ch. J.
Parsons sued Hunter upon a promissory note, the genuineness of which was disputed, it being claimed either that an original and imperfect instrument had been altered, or that a false one entirely had been substituted.
Upon the opening of the trial, plaintiff below examined all the panel on their voire dire, and then for the first time challenged one of them peremptorily. It was claimed he should have challenged him after his preliminary examination and before ho proceeded to question the rest. We see no error in this. There is no rule of practice forbidding the exercise of the…
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