Case ID: root_1/html/0269-01.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

Carew v. Bond.
    Action of indebitatus assumpsit will not lie where there is a written agreement, hut an action on the agreement.
    Eebob to reverse a judgment of a justice, in an action of indebitatus assumpsit, upon a written agreement; which was, that in case the plaintiff should be reduced to want, the defendant would let him have the improvement of twenty-six acres of land or £26 in money; that he was reduced to want and the defendant had let him have neither, and thereupon he became liable and assumed, etc.
    There were long special pleadings, which terminated in a demurrer, and judgment was for the plaintiff to recover, and now the judgment is reversed.
   By the Court.

Where the parties have entered into a particular written agreement respecting any matter, the remedy for any breach is upon the agreement; and not by action of indebitatus assumpsit.