Scott v. Baker

This is a suit in assumpsit by Rial Scott, defendant in error, against F. E. Baker, plaintiff in error. The declaration consists of the common counts only. The defendant pleaded non-assumpsit, the Statute of Limitations, and that the money claimed was knowingly loaned by the plaintiff to the defendant to be used in gambling in grain. With the plea of general issue the defendant filed an affidavit of merits, which, after averring that he verily believed that he had a good and complete defense to the suit upon the merits to the, whole of plaintiff’s demand, averred that the plaintiff verily…