Case Name: Wood vs. Whiterick
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1793
Citations: 1 Mart. 169
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wood vs. Whiterick.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 172–172

Head Matter:
Wood vs. Whiterick.
Trin. 2. Car.

Opinion:
THE plaintiff declared on an assumpsit on an insimul computaver. The defendant pleaded infancy; the plaintiff replied, it was for necessaries.
Mason. An action on the case does not lie against an infant, for in it damages are to be recovered; but debt only.
Sed non allocatur, because it has been otherwise adjudged.
2. This action is grounded on an account, in which the infant may be mistaken, and here evidence shall not be given of the value of the goods, but of the account only. And it was so adjudged 19 Jac. B. R. in the case of Stirrel and Homeday: and the reason given was, that the infant may be mistaken. Noy 87. Bendl. 203. Palm. 528.