Case Name: Dickinson v. Harrison
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1802
Citations: 1 Day 10
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dickinson v. Harrison.
Judges: 
Reporter: Day's Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 10–11

Head Matter:
Dickinson v. Harrison.
In the Court below,
Solomon Harrison, and Susannah, his wife, Plaintiffs ; Sylvanus DicSSnson, Defendants,
In indebitatus assumpsit for money had an received, plaintiff may declare gene rally.
.AlCTION oí indebitatus assumpsit, declaring, that oh the 2d of October, 1795, the defendant was indebted to the said Susannah, then a feme sole, but since married to the said Solomon, in the sum of ⅜ 120, for so much money, before that time, had and received of one Bristol, to and for the use of the said Susannah, being the avails of certain lands, which she conveyed to the defendant, on the 24th of March, 1794,' and which he sold to said Bristol, and received payment therefore, previous to, 1 * , and on, said 2d of October, 1795. The declaration concluded, by raising an assumpsit, in common form.
1802.
The general issue was pleaded, and closed to the Court. Judgment., that the defendant did assume, and damages assessed.
Error assigned, that the declaration was insufficient.
Ingersoll and Staples, for the plaintiff in error,
urged, that the declaration was too general; and, that it-did-not appear, by the special circumstances stated, but that the defendant below had a right to retain tire money.
Daggett and W. Hillhouse, for the defendants in error.

Opinion:
.By the whole Court,
Tire judgment was affirmed.