Lewis v. Manly
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Be it remembered, that in the term of September in the year of our Lord 1793, came Henry Manly, by William Rawle his attorney, into the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Philadelphia, and impleaded Richard Lewis in a certain plea of trespass on the case, &c. in which the said Henry declared, &c. [general indebitatus assumpsit for 4001. for goods sold and delivered, to which defendant pleaded payment.] And afterwards to wit, at an adjourned Court of Common Pleas,…
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Be it remembered, that in the term of September in the year of our Lord 1793, came Henry Manly, by William Rawle his attorney, into the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Philadelphia, and impleaded Richard Lewis in a certain plea of trespass on the case, &c. in which the said Henry declared, &c. [general indebitatus assumpsit for 4001. for goods sold and delivered, to which defendant pleaded payment.] And afterwards to wit, at an adjourned Court of Common Pleas, held at P. for the county of P. aforesaid, on the fourth day of February 1795, before the honorable James Biddle esq.…
1Opinion of the Court
A note given by a debtor to the agent of his creditor for goods sold, in order to obtain 'a discount thereon, and afterwards given up through misrepresentation of the drawer’, is no extinguishment of the original debt.
Letters written by strangers to a witness are no evidence to prove an independent material fact, but they may be received as introductory evidence.
Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia county, to which the following record was returned.
“ Sixty days after date I promise to pay Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth or order, eight hundred dollars, negotiable at the office…
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