Kenyon v. Woodward
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kalamazoo Circuit. This was an action to recover the amount due upon a promissory note. The declaration 'was on the common counts, with a copy of the note.
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Error to Kalamazoo Circuit. This was an action to recover the amount due upon a promissory note. The declaration 'was on the common counts, with a copy of the note. The ad damnum was for $500. Judgment was rendered for plaintiff for $603.25. The journal entry of the verdict was in the following words: “ The jury heretofore empaneled in this cause sat together and heard the conclusion of the testimony, the arguments of counsel and the charge of the court, retired from the bar thereof in charge of Albert J. Lanckton, an officer of court duly sworn for that purpose, to consider of their verdict…
1Opinion of the Court
Graves J.
This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the county of Kalamazoo; and according to the return to the writ the suit was commenced by attachment- in the court below, on the 18th day of April, 1863, for a demand as sworn to in the affidavit on which the writ issued, of five hundred and thirty-one dollars and seventeen cents: That on the 27th day of May following, the plaintiff below filed his declaration, containing the general counts for work and materials, and goods sold and delivered, and the 'common money counts, and alleged his damages to be five hundred dollars, and set…
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