Smith v. . Bowell

The Legislature have thought proper to attempt the suppression of the practice of issuing due-bills, as one extremely mischievous to the community; and one method they have adopted is to make the person liable to an action who issues a due-bill for a less sum than ten shillings. It would materially weaken the effect of this law, and disarm it of its sting, if, when such separate actions are brought, the court should interpose a consolidation rule. Such interference would be peculiarly improper in the present case, in which the (635) plaintiff, by warranting and blending $4 in each warrant,…