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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FAIRFIELD COUNTY,
    FEBRUARY, A. D. 1785.
    Ketchum v. Scribner.
    A noto giren for a consideration which is against law, may be avoided.
    ActioN on note, for £28, etc. dated in A. D. 1781. To "which the defendant plead in bar, that in A. D. 1776 the plaintiff went to Long Island and joined the enemy; and that in A. I). 1781 he purchased and received of the plaintiff, at Lloyd’s Neck, a place within the enemies’ lines, on Long Island, a parcel of goods to import into this state, contrary to law, and which goods were imported into this state accordingly, and said note was given for said goods and for no other consideration. The plaintiff replied that said note was given for value received, as expressed and acknowledged in said note — To which the defendant demurred.
   And judgment of the court was — That the reply of the plaintiff is insufficient.