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

LITCHFIELD COUNTY,
    JANUARY TERM, A. D. 1793.
    Ives v. D’Wolf.
    A plea of non est factum to- a note to which no answer ys given-,, cannot, be judged insufficient.
    Eeboe to reverse a judgment of a justice in an action, brought bv D’Wolf v. Ives on a note for £5, dated the 6th of May, A. Í). 1791.
    
      The defendant plead — That the note on -which, etc. -was not his act and deed. To which plea the plaintiff gave no answer.
    The justice gave judgment — That the defendant’s plea was insufficient, and for the plaintiff to recover.
    Error assigned — That said justice ought to have answered to the facts in the plea; or if he considered it as demurred to, to have given judgment that said plea was sufficient.
   Judgment — Manifest error, for the reasons assigned.