Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

2 Colo. 489

Freas v. Truitt

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided February 15, 1875

Supreme Court of Colorado · decided 1875-02-15

Assumpsit by Robert W. Truitt and Thomas B. Watson against the appellant, Lorenzo M. Freas. The first count of the declaration was upon a draft for $1,885.26, drawn by A. Bechtel, of Georgetown, Colorado, upon John Wiest, as treasurer of a mining company at Philadelphia, to the order of appellant, and by him indorsed to appellees. The common counts for goods sold and delivered, for work and materials, for money lent, etc., were also in the declaration.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1875-02-15

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1957

8 state decisions

30187518801890190019101920193019401950decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

Wells, J.

¶1The objection taken on the trial to the admission of testimony, as to the statement of account which was attached to the deposition of the witnesses sworn for the plaintiffs, was based in part upon an alleged variance between this statement and the bill of particulars filed with the plaintiffs’ declaration. But this latter paper is not incorporated into the bill of exceptions, and of itself is no part of the record. Cook v. Hughes, 1 Col. 51. We cannot, therefore, regard the alleged variance. The objection taken to the statement, as an aggregated and not an itemized account, is not well taken.

¶2Mo evidence was given touching the drawing and acceptance of the bill of exchange mentioned in the first count of the declaration. The defendant’s plea goes to the whole declaration ; the allegation of the first count being, therefore, fully denied, and no evidence being produced by the plaintiffs to maintain the issues thus joined, it must be assumed that no such bill of exchange was ever made or accepted. What is said in argument as to the effect of the plaintiffs’ omission to prosecute the acceptor must be disregarded.

¶3Mo error is perceived in the instructions given by the court, nor in refusing those prayed by the defendant.

¶4The judgment is affirmed, with costs.

¶5Affirmed.

/2/colo/489 · .json · Public domain