Stainton's Administrator & Heirs v. Brown

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This action of covenant was founded on a writing executed by Stainton, on the 21st of March, 1816, in which ■ — -after reciting that there had been, for twenty years, sundry settled and unsettled accounts between him and Brown, part for partnership transactions and the balance for moneys advanced him; during all which time, the funds, which lay mostly in lands, were left in his hands — he acknowledges that, on a settlement then made, a balance was found against him of five thousand five hundred dollars, which he promises to pay without…