Porter v. Stewart
Supreme Court of Vermont
IRA STEWART was attached to answer unto the plaintiffs, in a plea that he render unto them the sum of five thousand dollars, current money of the United States, which he owes to, •and unjustly detains from them; for that, whereas, the said Ira, heretofore, to wit, at, &c. on the 5th day of October, 1821, by bis certain writing, obligatory, signed with his hand, and sealed with his seal, and ready in court here to be produced, the date whereof is the day and year aforesaid,…
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IRA STEWART was attached to answer unto the plaintiffs, in a plea that he render unto them the sum of five thousand dollars, current money of the United States, which he owes to, •and unjustly detains from them; for that, whereas, the said Ira, heretofore, to wit, at, &c. on the 5th day of October, 1821, by bis certain writing, obligatory, signed with his hand, and sealed with his seal, and ready in court here to be produced, the date whereof is the day and year aforesaid, acknowledged himself to be held and firmly bound unto the said Zerah and Chauncey, in the said sum of five thousand…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was pronounced by
Prentiss, J.
The condition of the bond declared upon, after reciting that the defendant had sold to the plaintiffs a certain oil-mill for the sum of $3000, and taken their notes for the same, one for $450, payable in linseed oil or beef cattle the 1st day of May, 1822; one for $450, payable the 1st day of May; 1823 ; one for $619, payable the 1st day of May, 1824, and the others for the residue of the sum in annual payments, the last becoming due the 1st day of May, 1828, — provides, that if the defendant, on the payment, by the plaintiffs, of the two…
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