Reeves v. Butcher
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This suit was brought to enforce a promissory note drawn by the defendants to the plaintiff the consideration being a loan of money. The note bore date on a Saturday, but it was proved on the trial that the date of the note was filled in, and the note and the money actually delivered on the Sunday following.
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This suit was brought to enforce a promissory note drawn by the defendants to the plaintiff the consideration being a loan of money. The note bore date on a Saturday, but it was proved on the trial that the date of the note was filled in, and the note and the money actually delivered on the Sunday following. The evidence further showed that Benjamin Butcher, who was one of the makers of the note and the principal debtor, the other defendant being surety, subsequently paid a part of the interest falling due on the note. A verdict was taken for the plaintiff, and the case certified 'to this…
1Opinion of the CourtBeasley, C. J.
The statute of this state for suppressing •vice and immorality, enacts that “ no travelling, worldly employment, or business, shall be done on a Sunday,” aud this language, in its obvious and usual signification, would seem to prohibit the transaction of all secular affairs on the day specified. The provision is an extension evidently from design, of the 29 Car. II., c. 7, which declared “that no tradesman, artificer, laborer, or other person whatsoever, shall do or receive any worldly labor, business, or work of their ordinary callings upon the Lord’s day,” &c. So strict an intei’pretation…
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