Case Name: Brown v. Tonkin
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-04
Citations: 1 Cranch 85
Docket Number: 
Parties: Brown v. Tonkin.
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: 85–85

Head Matter:
Brown v. Tonkin.
A stamp is not necessary to an acknowledgment of having hired a house.
Debt, for rent.
An acknowledgment, signed by the defendant, that he had hired the house for six months, at $100 per annum, payable quarterly, was offered in evidence.
Mr. Peacock, for the defendant,
objected because the paper was not stamped.

Opinion:
The Court
adjudged the stamp to be unnecessary.