Case ID: root_1/html/0181-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bacon v. Fitch et al.
    An obligation. given to the heirs of a person living, by that description only, is good.
    EeRor, complaining of a judgment of the County Court in an action brought by Eiteh et al. children and heirs of Mary Backus against said Bacon, on a note given by him to the heirs of Mary Backus, she theu being alive, for £20, payable the 16th of January, A. D. 1766.
    A demurrer was given to the declaration.
    The question was —■ Whether the heirs of a person living, is a sufficient description for them to take by.
    Judgment' — -Declaration sufficient: And this judgment was affirmed.
   By the Court.

All that is necessary, in an obligee or grantee, is that he hath a capacity to take, and is so described as to be certainly known to be the person meant and intended; and in this case there cannot arise a doubt as to who the promisees were.