Case Name: Miller v. Evans
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1813-04
Citations: 2 Cranch 72
Docket Number: 
Parties: Miller v. Evans.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 72–72

Head Matter:
Miller v. Evans.
In an action upon a bond, payable by instalments, the jury may, and ought to, presume payment of any instalment payable more than twenty years before the commencement of the suit, and may presume payment of an instalment payable nineteen years and ten months before suit brought.
Debt, upon a bond payable by instalments. Nineteen years and ten months had elapsed since the last instalment became payable, and another instalment had become payable more than twenty years before the suit was brought.
Mr. N. Herbert, for the plaintiff. Mr. Taylor, for the defendant.

Opinion:
The Court
(nem. con.) instructed the jury that as to the in-stalment due more than twenty years they ought to presume, and . as to the other, they might presume, payment.