Suffolk County Court, 1671

Whitcomb v. Burnham

Whitcomb v. Burnham
Suffolk County Court · Decided October 31, 1671
1 Rec. Co. Ct. 21
Whitcomb v. Burnham

Opinion of the Court

James Whitcomb pP against Thomas Burnam of Barbados defend6 in an Action of the case for not passing or giuing bills of Exchange for the paying of fiuety & fiue pounds in London according to his In-gagem* as per a Letter of Creditt vnder the hand of said Burnham & James Coats bearing date the 13tlx of Oct° 1670 & also a receipt of Benjamin Cotman relating therevnto bearing Date the Second day of December 1670 & for all Damage susteyned for want thereof with other due damages according to AttachnP Dat the 3d of 9br 1671 This Ación was by agreem* of ye pP & William Goose (Master of ye ICatch Susanna whereof three Eight parts were attached as ye estate of ye Defend6) & Leaue from the Court now tryed & . . . the Jurie . . . found for the plantiffe sixty eight pounds fiueteene shillings in siluer & costs of Court forty fowre shillings & tenn pence.

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