Case Name: REED against PIERSON
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1810-09
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 681
Docket Number: 
Parties: [*] REED against PIERSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 256–256

Head Matter:
[*] REED against PIERSON.
ON CERTIORARI.
It appeared that the justice, on the trial of the cause below, admitted in evidence, as proof of the payment of a note, that the payer of a note borrowed money for the purpose of paying it about the time the note was due.

Opinion:
By the Court.
This evidence was inadmissible. It would be dangerous to .admit as proof of payment, that the debtor borrowed money for the purpose of payment; he might have applied the money .to other purposes.
Judgment reversed.