Case Name: SAYRE against SAYRE
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1813-05
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 1035
Docket Number: 
Parties: SAYRE against SAYRE.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 587–587

Head Matter:
SAYRE against SAYRE.
OS CERTIORARI.
Sait may be discontinued in defendant’s absence. A note is not evidence of a settlement of accounts.
8. 8eudder,
moved to reverse this judgment—
1st. That Daniel Sayre, who was the plaintiff below, had commenced a suit against the defendant before the same justice, for the same cause of action, and an adjournment had taken place; and before the time of meeting on the adjournment had come, he had, in the absence of the defendant, discontinued his suit, and then commenced a new one., This, Mr. Soudder contended, could not be done, but while both parties were in court.
S. P. Coze, 85.

Opinion:
By the Court.
This is a common practice; and we can perceive no legal objection to it.
2d. That the justice permitted the plaintiff below to prove items of a book account, of an older date than a note of hand which the defendant had given him, without proving that these items were not included in the note. He contended, that giving a note [*] was itself prima fade evidence of a settlement of all previous accounts.
By the Court.
We do not think that any such legal consequence follows. It is all matter of evidence to a jury.
Judgment affirmed.