Case Name: TRAVERS v. HIGHT
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1812-06
Citations: 24 F. Cas. 143
Docket Number: 
Parties: TRAVERS v. HIGHT.
Judges: (PITZHUGH, Circuit Judge, absent)
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 24
Pages: 143–143

Head Matter:
Case No. 14,151.
TRAVERS v. HIGHT.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 41.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
June Term. 1812.
Affidavit — To Hold to Bail — Sufficiency.
The account was headed “George W. Hight to Esias Travers, Dr., for articles furnished by his direction, and he to be answerable for the payment thereof.” Among other items was a charge for rations for the officers, &c., (George W. Hight being a recruiting officer.) An affidavit of the plaintiff was indorsed on the paper, “that the within account is just and true as stated.”
Mr. Jones, for plaintiff.
Mr. Caldwell, for defendant

Opinion:
THE COURT
(PITZHUGH, Circuit Judge, absent)
said it was not sufficient. It was neither a positive affidavit tha.t the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in a certain sum; nor was it such an affidavit as made the account evidence per se, under the act of assembly of Maryland, 1729 (chapter 20, § 9), according to the rule in the case of Smith v. Watson [Case No. 13,124], at June term, 1806, in Washington.