Delaware Court of Common Pleas, 1796

Ludenham v. Richards

Ludenham v. Richards
Delaware Court of Common Pleas · Decided April 15, 1796 · Bassett, Johns
1 Del. Cas. 89

Counsel

Wilson for plaintiff. Peery and Bayard for defendant., Bayard and Beery objected, Wilson, contra.

Ludenham v. Richards

Opinion of the Court

Bassett, C. J.

It is immaterial who reduced the account to writing; but this account was made too late, it would be a dangerous precedent to allow accounts to be made against people in their graves, and yet I acknowledge this is a hard case.

Johns, J.

This is certainly not an account regularly and fairly kept within the Act of Assembly.

I then directed the clerk to call the jury, and, refusing to answer, suffered a nonsuit.

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