Greenwood v. Curtis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The declaration in this case was in assumpsit, and contained three counts. In the first, the plaintiff alleges that, on the 29th day of January, 1802, he was the owner of the brigantine Hope, and her cargo, then at sea on a voyage to the coast of Africa, of which Isaac B. Hichborn was master, and that he had the sole property, interest, and concern therein ; and that the defendant, on the 27th day of July, in the same year, at Rio Pongos, viz., at Boston, by his note, under…
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The declaration in this case was in assumpsit, and contained three counts. In the first, the plaintiff alleges that, on the 29th day of January, 1802, he was the owner of the brigantine Hope, and her cargo, then at sea on a voyage to the coast of Africa, of which Isaac B. Hichborn was master, and that he had the sole property, interest, and concern therein ; and that the defendant, on the 27th day of July, in the same year, at Rio Pongos, viz., at Boston, by his note, under his hand of that date, for value received, promised the plaintiff to pay to the owners or concerned of the brigantine…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
This action is assumpsit on a promissory *298note for the delivery of slaves, and the payment ol [ * 363 ] * bars, which are an African currency, and also on an insimul computassent. A verdict has been found for the plaintiff, upon a trial on the general issue, subject to the opinion of the Court, upon a case stated by the parties.
*299Two objections have been made to the verdict by the counsel for the defendant — that the letters of Hippias * were improperly admitted in evidence; and, if they [ * 3S4 ] were not, that no action can be maintained in this state on a breach of either of the supposed…
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