Case Name: MOORE v. GADSBY
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-04
Citations: 17 F. Cas. 680
Docket Number: 
Parties: MOORE v. GADSBY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 17
Pages: 680–680

Head Matter:
Case No. 9,762.
MOORE v. GADSBY.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 3.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1801.
Evidence — Note — Internal Revenue — Stamp.
Same point as in Neale v. Hill [Case No. 10,-068.]
Assumpsit [by John Moore against John Gadsby] for hay sold and delivered. Non assumpsit, and issue.
[Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

Opinion:
THE COURT
refused to permit the note offered by the plaintiff to go in evidence to the jury, because it was "a note for the security of money," and not stamped agreeably to Act Cong. July 6, 1797, '§§ 1, 13 (1 Stat. 527). The note was in these words, viz.: "Received of Jno. Moore twenty-three hundred and twenty wt of hay, at seven pounds ten shillings per tunn, to be paid in sixty days from this date. 2,320 wt. at 7s. 6d. per C. Dollars, 29.00. Jno. Gadsby. May 23, 1800."