Aborn v. Rathbone
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for goods sold; brought by appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, to the Court of Common Pleas of ISTew London County, and tried to the jury, before Mather, J. Yerdict for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for error in the charge of the court. The ease is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
The defendant was indebted to the plaintiff to the amount of $222, on the 1st of March, 1881. On that day he gave the defendant the following receipt:
*445“Norwich, Conn., March 1st, 1881. Received of Mr. Jewett Rathbone one hundred and fourteen dollars account in full to date. A. R. Aborn.”
The plaintiff claimed, and offered evidence to prove, that at the time the receipt was given he offered to pay the plaintiff one hundred dollars in cash and receipt two small bills against him, coming to $14.50, if he would accept it in full, and that the plaintiff accepted it in full and gave the receipt in…
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