Blye International Ltd. v. Robinson

This is an action of contract in which the plaintiff seeks to recover a sum of money claimed as due from the defendant upon a certain written instrument alleged to be a promissory note.

The answer of the defendant was a general denial, plea of payment, the statute of frauds, lack of consideration, and the statute of limitations.

The trial justice found for the plaintiff in the sum of $7404.39 with interest from the date of the writ.

At the trial of the case, the court admitted into evidence, over the objection of the defendant, the original of an instrument annexed to the substitute declaration…