Jones v. Moore
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THIS was an action upon a promissory note for 2000 dollars, drawn by the defendant’s intestate on the 12 th of February 1799, and payable sixty days after date to Bond and Brooks, by whom it was indorsed to the testator of the plaintiffs.
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THIS was an action upon a promissory note for 2000 dollars, drawn by the defendant’s intestate on the 12 th of February 1799, and payable sixty days after date to Bond and Brooks, by whom it was indorsed to the testator of the plaintiffs. The declaration contained but one count, which was upon a promise by the intestate to the testator; and the pleas were non assumpsit and the statute of limitations. . Upon the trial of the cause before Brackenridge J. a Nisi Prius in January 1812, the plaintiffs’ counsel, after proving the handwriting of Gray, (who it was admitted died in November 1805)…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
This action was brought on a promissory' note dated the 12th of February 1799, given by Robert Gray deceased to Bond and Brooks, payable sixty days after date, and indorsed by Bond and Brooks to William Wister deceased. Issue was joined on the statute of limitations; and on the trial several letters from the defendant Moore, were read in evidence, from which the jury, agreeably to the opinion of the judge before whom the cause was tried, inferred a promise to pay the debt. It was reserved as a point for the decision of the Court in bank, whether supposing a promise by the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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