1 D.C. 508
District of Columbia District Court
Decided July 15, 1808
District of Columbia District Court · decided 1808-07-15
<p>A former recovery may be given in evidence upon nil débet.</p> <p>A former recovery upon a count for goods sold and delivered, may be given in evidence in an action of debt upon a promissory note, with an evidence that judgment was confessed in the former action upon and for the note now declared upon.</p>
Decided 1808-07-15
¶1was of opinion that the former recovery may be given in evidence on nil debet, and that parol evidence may be given to show, that although the action was indebitatus assumpsit for goods sold and delivered, the judgment was really confessed for and upon the notes, and that this parol evidence was not contradictory to the record.
¶2The plaintiff became nonsuit,’With leave to move to reinstate.