Doughton v. Tillay

Tillay and others, as partners, brought an action of assumpsit against Doughton on a promissory note. The defendant pleaded the general issue. The cause was submitted to the Court, and a judgment rendered for the plaintiffs.

After the plaintiffs.had closed their testimony, the defendant read a bill of discovery which had been filed by him against the plaintiffs, and then offered to read as evidence a paper containing an admission that the note sued on was paid, and purporting to be the answer of Tillay, one of the plaintiffs, to the bill of discovery. The admission of this paper as evidence…