U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia, 1804

Harper v. West

Harper v. West
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · Decided November 15, 1804
11 F. Cas. 584; 1 Cranch 192
Harper v. West

Opinion of the Court

But

THE COURT

overruled the objection, .being of opinion that if Stephenson was the authorized agent of West, for that purpose, his indorsement, in the form in which it was written, amounted to an acceptance. Moor v. Withy, Esp. 42.

Mr. Jones, objected to the plaintiff’s giving in evidence acts to prove the defendant to be executrix in her own wrong, contending that if he meant to rely upon such evidence, he ought to have stated it specially in his application.

But THE COURT (nem. con.) permitted the plaintiff to go into evidence of acts of interfering with the goods of the deceased, &c.

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