McCord v. Durant
McCord v. Durant
Opinion of the Court
The first three assignments of error are not according to the Rules. They do not give the rulings of the court below in the precise phraseology used, but only its substance. See Rule XXIII. Nor does the paper-book of appellant give the charge literally, in any part of it.
We discover no érror in the direction to find for the defendant. The plaintiff put in evidence the affidavit of defence, from which it appears that the agreement of October 19,1872, had been fulfilled by Durant. The affidavit sets forth that “the consideration of the making of this agreement, (February 8,1875,) which completely abrogated and nullified the agreement of October 19, 1872, on which this suit is brought, was the payments already made thereon, amounting to $8,525.90, and the execution and delivery to said J. D. Williams of four certain promissory notes, each for the sum of $500, dated February 8, 1875, payable at six, ten, fourteen, and eighteen months, respectively, made by deponent, and indorsed by one J. G. Jamison. Deponent further says that said agreement sued on was completely and entirely nullified, abrogated, and satisfied by the said agreement of February 8, 1875, and that his whole indebtedness to said J. D. Williams was merged in, and evidenced by, said promissory notes above set forth, and that no indebtedness exists on his part to said J. D. Williams, or has existed thereon, by reason or on account of said agreement, since the eighth day of February, A. D. 1875.” As this
Judgment affirmed.
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- J. S. McCORD, ADMR. v. W. L. DURANT
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- (a) In an action to recover the consideration expressed in a written contract of sale, the plaintiff put in evidence an affidavit of defence made by the defendant in a former action upon the same contract, showing satisfaction by payment in part and the acceptance of notes as payment of the residue: 1. The affidavit of defence having been put in evidence by the plaintiff, without disproving any of its averments, due credit should be given to it, so far as he was concerned; his remedy, therefore, was confined to an action upon the notes unpaid, and in the action upon the contract it was not error to direct a verdict for the defendant. 2. Assignments of error to the charge of the court, which do not give the instructions complained of in the precise phraseology used, but only their substance, ai'e not according to the Rule of Court XXIII., providing: “ When the error assigned is to the charge of the court..... the part of the charge.....referred to must be quoted totidem verbis.”