Clay v. Huston's administrators

OPINION of the Court, b}r

Judge Boyle.

— The plaintiff declared in an assumpsit on a note, executed by r. • i r 11 - 1 i \ r ' the intestate, in the tollo wing words and figures, to wit, 41 I do promise to pay Mr. Green Clay, or his order, thirty pounds in militia certificates, for value received of him, as witness my hand this 15th day of June 1786, N. Huston.” He avers that on the —— day of —:— in the year 1804, at the usual place of residence of the intestate in the county of Lincoln, he demanded of him the said sum of thirty pounds in militia certificates.

The defendants pleaded non…