Patterson v. Gile
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to Probate Court, Arapahoe County. Assumpsit on a due bill for $365.36. Plea general issue, under which defendant offered evidence of want of consideration, was rejected.
1Opinion of the Court
Hallett, 0. J.
When the due bill, upon which this action was brought, was produced at the trial in the court below, it bore revenue stamps of sufficient amount, but the stamps had not been canceled. The court permitted the attorney of the plaintiff below to cancel the stamps and allowed the instrument to be read in evidence against the objection of the plaintiff in error, who now insists that this ruling was erroneous. By section 158 of the revenue act, a penalty is provided for any violation of the act in respect to the stamping of instruments in cases where the omission or neglect to stamp…
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