Case ID: kirby_1/html/0392-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Broom and Platt v. Jennings and Herron.
    Error from the Court of Common {Pleas. The original action was upon a promissory note, for £419 12s. 9d. New York currency, on interest, dated September 20, 1775,.in-dorsed as follows, viz.— “Received, May 14, 1779, of Mr. William Herron, £268 12s. 8d. New York currency, in continental bills, per loose receipt given him.— Samuel Broom & Co.” — Upon a default, and hearing in damages, on motion of the defendant, the damages were assessed at £353 14s. 4d. New York currency.
    The error assigned was — That the damages were assessed too low: That the indorsement should have been reduced by the scale of depreciation, and the damages assessed at £718 Is. 6d. New York currency.
    Judgment affirined.
   By the whole Court.

Error is not to be presumed; and for aught that appears from the record, the damages were assessed right: for they were assessed upon a hearing of the parties, and the receipt referred to in the indorsement, might have shown an agreement of the plaintiffs to accept and apply the bills nominally,- or the defendants might have shown other payments; for they were not confined to the indorsement.