Kirkpatrick v. Pyle

ACTION of debt and declaration in the usual form on a single bill which was as follows:

$1000. WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

Six months after my death I do order and direct my administrator to pay Mary F. Kirkpatrick, or order, one thousand dollars, without defalcation for value received.

Witness my hand and seal this twenty-eighth day of May, A.D., 1873.

MARTHA KIRKPATRICK. [SEAL]

Witnesses present,

WM. H. GRUBB, L. P. BUSH.

And to which the following special plea was the only plea entered:

And the said defendant in his own proper person comes and defends the wrong and injury, when etc., and says, that…