Case Name: Ives v. D'Wolf
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1793-01
Citations: 1 Root 503
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ives v. D’Wolf.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 503–504

Head Matter:
LITCHFIELD COUNTY,
JANUARY TERM, A. D. 1793.
Ives v. D’Wolf.
A plea of non est factum to- a note to which no answer ys given-,, cannot, be judged insufficient.
Eeboe to reverse a judgment of a justice in an action, brought bv D’Wolf v. Ives on a note for £5, dated the 6th of May, A. Í). 1791.
The defendant plead — That the note on -which, etc. -was not his act and deed. To which plea the plaintiff gave no answer.
The justice gave judgment — That the defendant’s plea was insufficient, and for the plaintiff to recover.
Error assigned — That said justice ought to have answered to the facts in the plea; or if he considered it as demurred to, to have given judgment that said plea was sufficient.

Opinion:
Judgment — Manifest error, for the reasons assigned.