Young v. Adams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Error on a judgment of the Common Pleas for this county, rendered in an action wherein the defendant in error was original plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error original defendant.
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Error on a judgment of the Common Pleas for this county, rendered in an action wherein the defendant in error was original plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error original defendant. The original action was indebitatus assumpsit for five dollars, money had and received by the defendant for the plaintiff’s use, and was commenced before William Wetmore, Esquire, a justice of the peace for this county, and also chief justice of the said Court of Common Pleas, by whom, the general issue being pleaded, judgment was given for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appealed to the Common Pleas. Upon…
1Opinion of the CourtSewall, J.
Two principal questions, suggested in the assignment of errors upon the bill of exceptions in this case have been fully and ingeniously argued — whether the action, in the particular form of it, being for money received to the use of the plaintiff", is supported by the evidence; and whether that evidence proves a case upon which the plaintiff" is entitled to recover.
The merits of this cause are said to be with the defendant, because, in the currency of bank bills, when they are offered and accepted in payment, without any warranty of their genuineness by the payer, or he is not provably…
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