Case Name: Stores v. Stores
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1789-09
Citations: 1 Root 139
Docket Number: 
Parties: Stores v. Stores.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 139–139

Head Matter:
Stores v. Stores.
An order drawn by tlie plaintiff on a third person, for value received in favor of the defendant, and delivered to him, may be charged on book, and the plaintiff be allowed to swear to it.
AotioN of debt by book. Plea — owe nothing. Issue to-jury. The hook consisted of two articles; one for cash paid £4, and one for an order drawn in favor of tlie defendant, on William Campbell, for £60 value received.
Question to the court — Whether such an order may he charged on hook; and whether the plaintiff may he admitted to swear to it, when in the writing he has acknowledged that he has received the value.

Opinion:
By the Court.
'The order may properly be charged on book, and the plaintiff be allowed to swear to it, it being an article of commerce; there is a wide difference between an action brought upon an order or -bill of exchange, and a.n action brought for an order or bill of exchange.