Watson v. Cresap

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an action of assumpsit, brought by the appellees against the appellants, for the consideration paid for a hundred dollar bank bill, on the Bank of the United States, passed by the appellants to the appellees, and which is alleged to be a counterfeit. The suit was brought in a short time after the bill was passed to the appellees, and the counterfeit note is exhibited in the record.

The declaration contains three counts, the first a special count, which alleges that the defendants were indebted to the plaintiffs two hundred dollars, and paid…