Case Name: John Moore v. John Gadsby
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-04
Citations: 1 Cranch 3
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Moore v. John Gadsby.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 3–4

Head Matter:
John Moore v. John Gadsby.
Same point as in the preceding case.
Assumpsit for hay sold and delivered. Non assumpsit, and issue.

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 the Act of Congress of 6th July, 1797, § 1, 13. [1 Stat. at Large, 527.] '
The noté was in these'Vords, viz.: "Received of Jno. More 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."