Court Opinion

ID: 7386688
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 00:21:29.995659+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:21:33.355086
License: Public Domain

Tayi.or, C. J.
The Legislature have thought proper to attempt the suppression of the practice of issuing due bills, as one extremely mischievous to the community; and one method they have adopted is, to make the person liable to an action, who issues a due bill for a less sum than ten shillings. It would materially weaken the effect *202of fliis law, and disarm it of its sting, if when such sepa-* rate acti°ns are brought, the Court should interpose a eon4 solidation rule. Such interference would be peculiarly improper in the present tase, in which the Plaintiff, by warranting and blending four dollars in each warrant, ha¿ pursued d touch less rigorous course, than he was allowed by law tó do.—This consideration, togethér with the stay of execution'which the «Defendant might have availed himself of, bad a larger sum been claimed in one warrant, induct us to concur in the opinion given by the judge Who heard the motion. His judgment on the motion is therefore affirmed.