Case Name: BANK OF WASHINGTON v. KURTZ
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1813-06
Citations: 2 F. Cas. 747
Docket Number: 
Parties: BANK OF WASHINGTON v. KURTZ.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 2
Pages: 747–747

Head Matter:
Case No. 950.
BANK OF WASHINGTON v. KURTZ.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 110.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
June Term, 1813.
Evidence—Primary and Secondary.
Parol evidence cannot be given of the contents of a letter from the notary public to the defendant, put into the post-ofiiee, without previous notice to the defendant to produce it.
[Cited in Underwood v. Huddlestone, Case No. 14,339.]

Opinion:
THE COURT
refused to permit the notary public to give parol evidence of the contents of his letter to the defendant, who was the indorser of George Frank's promissory note, without previous notice to the defendant to produce the original letter, on the authority of Underwood v. Huddlestone, [Case No. 14,339,] June term, 1813. Quaere?