Case Name: YOUNG vs. WILSON
Court: Columbiana County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1817-09
Citations: 1 Tapp. Rep. 179
Docket Number: 
Parties: YOUNG vs. WILSON.
Judges: Present — TAPP AN, President; SMITH, BROWN and BOWMAN, Associates.
Reporter: Cases decided in the Courts of common pleas, in the Fifth circuit of the state of Ohio [1816-1819] (Tappan)
Volume: 1
Pages: 179–179

Head Matter:
COLUMBIANA COUNTY
SEPTEMBER TERM, 1817.
Present — TAPP AN, President; SMITH, BROWN and BOWMAN, Associates.
YOUNG vs. WILSON.
Payment cannot be given in evidence, on a plea of non estfaetum.
Debt — on a sealed note.
Plea — Won est faetum, without affidavit.
Notice of set-off: corn sold and delivered, money paid, &c.
Weight, for plaintiff.
Potter and G-oodenow, for defendant.
The counsel for the plaintiff read the note on which the suit was brought, and rested the case.
The defendant’s counsel then offered evidence to prove that the note had been paid, and ought to have been given up to be cancelled— which was objected to.

Opinion:
President.
Is this evidence offered in support of the plea or set-off?
Goodenow. — We offer the evidence under the plea of non est factum.
President. — You admit this note to have been good and valid in its creation, and rely, in your defence, on evidence that it has been paid. Such evidence cannot be received under this issue. The plea denies the execution of the note, and'is notice to the plaintiff to come prepared on that point — but it is no notice whatever, to him, that you intend to prove a payment. If your payment is within either branch of the notice of set-off, proceed with the evidence of it; if it is not, it cannot be received.
Yerdict for plaintiff.