Case Name: ELLIS's ADMINISTRATOR versus HETFIELD
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1795-09
Citations: 1 Mart. 41
Docket Number: 
Parties: ELLIS’s ADMINISTRATOR versus HETFIELD.
Judges: Haywood, J. tacente
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 41–41

Head Matter:
Newbern,
September Term, 1795.
ELLIS’s ADMINISTRATOR versus HETFIELD.
COVENANT and non est sactum pleaded. Martin, for the plaintiff, offered to give evidence of the hand-writing of the plaintiff, who was the only subscribing witness to the specialty; and cited Godfrey vs. Norris, 1 Strange, 34.
This was objected to by Slade, for the defendant: but
Admitted by the Court, Williams, J. and Haywood, J.
And, proof having given of the subscribing witness’s hand-writing:

Opinion:
Williams, J.
required that the signature of the defendant should also be proved.
Haywood, J. tacente
It was accordingly done, and the plaintiff had a verdict.