Goodall v. Tucker
Supreme Court of the United States
This case, like the preceding one, of Hill v. Tucker, was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. They were argued together, and differed only in there being different plaintiffs. The cause of action in this case is stated in the opinion of the court; and the reader is referred to the report of the preceding case for the arguments of counsel.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
This cause was tried by the judge without a jury and the legal propositions raised by counsel in the course of the trial were decided by him, to "which exceptions were taken, as if they had been instructions to a jury.
The cause of action is' the following single bill, which was executed at Richmond in Virginia:
“ On demand, we, Abner Robinson, Isham Puckett, and J. P. Wilkinson, promise to pay to Charles P. Goodall, his executors or administrators, the sum of four thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty-seven cents, ($4,926.27,) lawful money of these United States, for the…
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