Scott v. Jones

MARSHALL, Circuit Justice.

On the 7th of October, 1776, Peter Field Trent, Alexander Trent, John Harris, John Scott, and William Gay, executed a bond to T. M. Randolph, for six hundred pounds, payable on the 25th of April, 1783. Peter Field Trent was the principal, and the other obligors, his sureties. On the 1st of May, 1789, T. M. Randolph assigned this bond to W. Jones. From 1763 to 1788, there was a running account between T. M. Randolph and the obligor J. Scott, which was settled on the 2d of September, 1791, when T. M. Randolph acknowledged himself to owe J. Scott £360 9s. 2d., to be…