Witherspoon v. . Isbell

¶1There is a difference between laying a fact after the time it really happened and before the time it really happened. In the first case the declaration is supportable; in the second it is not. So the plaintiff was nonsuited. Quere de hoc, et vide Salk., 662; Cro. J., 428; Bull., 33; L. Ev., 241; Co. Litt., 283; Cro. Car., 514, 228; I Sid., 308; Trials perpais, 394; Cro. J., 94; Touch. Pre., 264, 549; 5 Mo. C., 287; 1 Bac. Ab., 102; 2 H. H. P. C., 291.