Brown v. Barry
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR from the.Circuit Court for the Diñiitft of Virginia. An a£tion of debt had been inftituted in the Circuit Court by James Barry, a citizen of Maryland, againft James Brown, a citizen of Virginia; .in which the declaration fetb forth, that the Plaintiff by his attorney^ “ complains of James Brown, &c. of a plea that he render to him the fum of ¿".770. fterling money .of Great Britain, with intereft thereon at the rate of 10 per centper annum,, from the nth of February…
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ERROR from the.Circuit Court for the Diñiitft of Virginia. An a£tion of debt had been inftituted in the Circuit Court by James Barry, a citizen of Maryland, againft James Brown, a citizen of Virginia; .in which the declaration fetb forth, that the Plaintiff by his attorney^ “ complains of James Brown, &c. of a plea that he render to him the fum of ¿".770. fterling money .of Great Britain, with intereft thereon at the rate of 10 per centper annum,, from the nth of February 1793, which to him he owes, and from him „unjuftly detains: For that whereas the faid Defendant, on the nth of February…
1Opinion of the Court
E^s worth, Chief Juftice.
Jn delivering ths opinior/Of the court, I ihall briefly confider the exceptions to the record* in the order in which they have been propofe.d at the' bar..
I. The fir/i exception Rates, that the aft of the Legiflature of Virginia, pafled in the year, 1748, on which ’the • action is founded, as an action of debt, was not in force, when the bill of exchange was drawn, to wit, on the nth af Feh wry 1793. • The queftion is, whether two. fubfequent acts of the Legifla-ture of that State,, pafled at a feflion in 1792 (namely, one of • November, declaring the repeal of the…
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