Hays v. Bell

Debt on a promissory note for 214 dollars. Payments indorsed on the note, before the suit was brought, reduced the sum due on the note to eight dollars and ninety-four cents. The verdict was for the debt in the declaration, to be discharged on the payment of eight dollars and ninety-four cents. contended that a nonsuit ought to be entered, under Act Va. Dec. 3, 1792, p. 90, § 38. contended that this • cause could not have been heard on a petition in Virginia.