Case Name: COXE AND NEWBOLD, EXECUTORS OF PIGEON, v. HANKINSON
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1791-04
Citations: 1 N.J.L. 99
Docket Number: 
Parties: COXE AND NEWBOLD, EXECUTORS OF PIGEON, v. HANKINSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 99–100

Head Matter:
COXE AND NEWBOLD, EXECUTORS OF PIGEON, v. HANKINSON.
The giving a promissory wste is not, ipso facto, a payment that will extinguish a contract.
Action upon a sale of cattle for ¿E705. Plea, an account settled, and ¿£46 brought into court, Stockton, for plaintiff.
Frelinglmysen, for defendant,
offered to prove that Hankinson bad given his note for the money.

Opinion:
Per Cur.
A note does not, ipso facto, extinguish the contract.