Hays v. Lusk

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.

— The action was originally brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant, before a justice of the peace, who had rendered a judgmient for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appealed to the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county. On the trial in that court, the plaintiff, in support of his action, gave in evidence two due bills from the defendant and one John Reed to him; one in the following words:-r~

“ Due to the order of John K. Hays, the sum of thirty dollars, on or before the first day of December next, provided the said…