Guile v. Brown
Supreme Court of Connecticut
General Assumpsit, brought to a justice of the peace for New London county. The declaration contained six common counts in each of which the amount of indebtedness was alleged to be fourteen dollars, and concluded with demanding twenty-five dollars damages.
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General Assumpsit, brought to a justice of the peace for New London county. The declaration contained six common counts in each of which the amount of indebtedness was alleged to be fourteen dollars, and concluded with demanding twenty-five dollars damages. On the trial before the justice the plaintiff filed the following bill of particulars: ' To sawing seven thousand hemlock shingles, at one dollar five cents per thousand, $10.50 Interest,.......- 3.62 $14.12 The justice rendered judgment for the plaintiff to recover fourteen dollars twelve cents damages, and the defendant appealed to the…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
Both parties claim that there is but a single count in this declaration. It is impossible to look at this record from a common sense stand-point, without coming to the conclusion that the real matter in demand did not originally exceed the sum of fourteen dollars. The declaration consists of six different parts, in each of which the consideration for the indebtedness is differently stated. In form also each part alleges a distinct indebtedness of fourteen dollars. In looking at the face of the declaration therefore, it may be read as stating a demand, or rather several demands, amounting in…
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