Case Name: GORDON versus PAYNE & MARE
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1796-10
Citations: 1 Mart. 72
Docket Number: 
Parties: GORDON versus PAYNE & MARE.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 72–73

Head Matter:
Edenton,
October Term, 1796.
GORDON versus PAYNE & MARE.
DEBT on a bond. Non est factum pleaded. Robert Egan, the subscribing witness to the bond, having been summoned by the plaintiff, went off sometime before court to New-York on his private business. It was admitted that he was dangerously ill there, and that the last that was heard from him, was that he was given o ver by his physician. Upon this, the plaintiff's counsel offered to prove the hand- writing of the witness, as evidence of the execution of the bond; but

Opinion:
M'Coy J.
refused to admit the testimony ; and he was non-suited.
* Egan was actually dead at the time.