Case ID: nc_1/html/0041-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Williams, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Newbern,
    
      September Term, 1795.
    ELLIS’s ADMINISTRATOR versus HETFIELD.
    COVENANT and non est sactum pleaded. Martin, for the plaintiff, offered to give evidence of the hand-writing of the plaintiff, who was the only subscribing witness to the specialty; and cited Godfrey vs. Norris, 1 Strange, 34.
    This was objected to by Slade, for the defendant: but
    Admitted by the Court, Williams, J. and Haywood, J.
    And, proof having given of the subscribing witness’s hand-writing:
   Williams, J.

required that the signature of the defendant should also be proved.

Haywood, J. tacente

It was accordingly done, and the plaintiff had a verdict.