Long v. Davis

The plaintiff in error as administrator of Charleton Thompson, deceased, brought his action in the Circuit Court of Madison against the defendant, to recover the amount of a promissory note made by the defendant and one P. E. Watson, payable to the plaintiff’s intestate, three months after the date thereof, for the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars. The common indebitatus counts are added in the declaration. Verdict anti judgment for defendant.

Upon the trial of the cause, the defendant was allowed to read in evidence the deposition of one Thomas W. Gilchrist, taken in a former suit,…