Case Name: Travers v. Hight
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1812-06
Citations: 2 Cranch 41
Docket Number: 
Parties: Travers v. Hight.
Judges: (Fitzhugh, J., absent,)
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: 41–41

Head Matter:
Travers v. Hight.
Affidavit to hold to hail.
The account was headed “ George W. Hight to Esias Tra-vers, Dr., for articles furnished by his direction, and he to be answerable for the payment thereof.” Among other items was a charge for rations for the officers, &e., (George W. Hight being a recruiting officer.) An affidavit of the plaintiff was indorsed on the paper, “ that the within account is just and true as stated.”
Mr. Jones for the plaintiff. Mr. Caldwell for the defendant.

Opinion:
The Court
(Fitzhugh, J., absent,)
said it was not sufficient. It was neither a positive affidavit that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in a certain sum ; nor was it such an affidavit as made the account evidence per se, under the Act of Assembly of Maryland, 1729, c. 20, §> 9, according to the rule in the case of Smith et al. v. Watson, at June term, 1806, in Washington, [1 Crunch, C. C. 311.]