Court Opinion

ID: 6309418
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-18 19:14:14.169883+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:59:02.355518
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Yeates, J.
stated the evidence which had been given on the trial, and the seven counts laid in the declaration particularly, and then proceeded.
Hence it appears that no proof was offered on the first, second, fourth, and fifth counts.
Messrs. Duncan and Orbison, pro quer.
Messrs. S. Riddle and Dunlap, pro def.
The third count would have been correctly stated, if the 30I. had been alleged to have been loaned on the 31st December 1794, instead of the 1st January 1795 ; and if the 151. laid to have been forborne, the payment of had been alleged to have been from the 8th September 1794, instead of the last day of February 1795.
The sixth count would have been correct, if the forbearance of the 215I. ns. had been stated to have been from the 1st November 1797, instead of the last day of October 1797. And the same objection holds precisely as to the seventh count.
There seems therefore a fatal variance in all the counts; and whatever our feelings may be as men, we must submit to the authority of Carlisle qui tam. v. Trears, Cowp. 671. In the language of Lord Mansfield, “ the usurious contract must be “proved as laid; whereas the contract proved in this case, is ,. 1 “ *totally different from the contract stated in the decla-I0°3 “ration.”
Rule made absolute.