Case Name: Lemuel Weeks and Another versus William Hasty and Others
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1816-05
Citations: 12 Tyng 218
Docket Number: 
Parties: *Lemuel Weeks and Another versus William Hasty and Others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 13
Pages: 178–178

Head Matter:
*Lemuel Weeks and Another versus William Hasty and Others.
Interest was allowed upon moneys paid, where the defendant suffered judgment to go by default.
Assumpsijt for money laid out and expended, and for money had and received. The defendants. were defaulted at the last October term, and the action was continued for judgment. The demand of the plaintiffs arose from moneys paid to Jacob Barker for account of the defendants, and they had charged interest thereon from June, 1804, the time of paying the money, to the commencement of this suit; and Todd, for the plaintiffs, contended, that they were entitled to recover such interest within the decision of this Court in the case of Wood vs. Robbins. The money was wrongfully detained by the defendants.
Whitman, for the defendants.
11 Mass. Rep. 504.

Opinion:
The Court,
after considering the case, ordered judgment to be entered for the interest as well as principal, upon the count for money laid out and expended ; observing, that, in the case cited, the sum was found by the jury; but that there was the same reason for allowing interest on a default as on a trial.