Case Name: Dean v. Woodbridge
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1790-03
Citations: 1 Root 191
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dean v. Woodbridge.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 191–191

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.