Bridges v. Ridgley

*3951. THIS is a writ of error, prosecuted to reverse a judgment, rendered after default, on summons and petition. It is assigned for error, that the suit was commenced before the note recited on the face the petition, became due. The note became due on the 14th May, 1820, and the writ or summons is dated on the 5th of May in the same year. This would ap. pear at first conclusive. But the twenty ninth year of the commonwealth is added. Had the process been *3960n the fifth of May, it must have been the twenty eighth year. So far, one era is opposed to the other, ami were there nothing else in the…