Griffin v. Ranney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford county. The court (Pardee J.,) admitted in evidence a document offered by the plaintiff on which there was no revenue stamp, and judgment being rendered for the plaintiff the defendants moved for a new trial on that ground.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
Whether the paper writing, introduced in evidence in this case, required an internal revenue stamp under the act of Congress, is a question we need not now determine, as we are satisfied that a new trial must be denied on another ground.
The provision in the United States statute of 1866, ch. 184, page 143, is as follows: “That hereafter no deed, instrument, document, writing, or paper, required by law to be stamped, which has been signed or issued without being duly stamped, or with a deficient stamp, nor any copy thereof, shall *240be recorded, or admitted, or used as evidence in any court,…
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