Brown v. Keach
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action upon a promissory note, dated December 19, 1842, for the sum of one hundred and seventy-six dollars, payable to the plaintilf, or her order, on demand with interest. The writ was dated April 12, 1854. The defendant pleaded the statute of limitations.
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This was an action upon a promissory note, dated December 19, 1842, for the sum of one hundred and seventy-six dollars, payable to the plaintilf, or her order, on demand with interest. The writ was dated April 12, 1854. The defendant pleaded the statute of limitations. The cause was tried at Brooklyn, at the April term, 1855. "Upon the trial of the case to the jury, the plaintilf, to prove an acknowledgment of the debt by the defendant, called her daughter, Melissa Brown, who testified that, in the latter part of December, 1851, she, as the agent of her mother and sister, wrote the defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Waite,- C. J.
In the case of Wilcox v. Roath, a question arose, whether it was the duty of the court to determine whether a certain letter, written by the defendant, amounted to a ratification of a contract, made by him, while a minor. The judge, who drew up the opinion of the court, after reviewing the different decisions, and practice, upon that subject, waived a determination of the question, as the case could be disposed of upon another ground. 12 Conn. R., 580.'
In a later case, before an English court, the plaintiff read in evidence a letter to the defendant, and his answer thereto, and…
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