Knight v. Jones
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of assumpsit brought by Mary Knight, in the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne, against William Jones.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of assumpsit brought by Mary Knight, in the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne, against William Jones. The plaintiff declared on the common counts, with a notice annexed to the declaration, that she would give in evidence, as a promissory note under the money counts, an instrument of which the following is a copy: “I promise to pay Mary Knight or heirs the sum making four hundred and fifty dollars, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred sixty-eight. William Jones. Detroit, Oct. 7, ’67.” On the trial the plaintiff offered the writing in…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court held that the instrument offered in evidence was sufficiently certain as to the sum payable and the payee, to entitle it to be admitted as a promissory note.
Judgment reversed and a new trial ordered.
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