Whitaker v. Bramson

Assumpsit on two promissory notes. One note dated October 14th, 1824, for $281 25, payable six months after date; the other, dated December 17th, 1824, for $424 50, payable in six months. The declaration also contains the common money counts, and counts in indebitatus assumpsit. To this declaration the defendant pleaded: 1, the general issue; 2. the exemption of his body from imprisonment because of certain insolvent discharges; and 3, to the counts up*948on the promissory notes, a former recovery for the same canse of action, 3

The latter plea is the one immediately drawn in judgment; it is,…