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Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Dean v. Woodbridge.
    tVliere a note is payaWe in specific articles on demand, a special demand is necessary.
    Action on note; in which the defendant promised the plaintiff to pay Mm £36 2s. 6d., in West India goods, on demand; and no special demand is laid in the declaration. The defendant demurred to the declaration on that account.
    Judgment' — -That the declaration is insufficient.
   The duty of the defendant to deliver the goods arises upon a demand being made; and the breach which subjects him to damages, consists in not delivering them when demanded; and this action is not for the goods, hut for damages, to compensate for the breach of the contract; which could not have happened until demand' was made. Besides if this action is maintainable without a demand such an obligation would be the same as a note for money.