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4 Ark. 154

Featherston v. Wilson

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided January 15, 1842

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1842-01-15

This was a suit determined in the Crawford Circuit Court, in February, A. D. 1841, before the Hon. Richard C. S. Brown, one of the Circuit Judges. Featherston and Wilson, in the Court below, by declaration, commencing, “William G. Featherston, the plaintiff in this suit, by attorney, complains of Robert Wilson, defendant in this suit, in an action of assumpsit.” It then stated that Wilson, on a day and at a place certain, made a note to Wm.

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Decided 1842-01-15

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¶1By the Court,

Dickinson, J.

¶2~ The proceedings in this case are exceedingly irregular, and the plea is every way informal, if not insufficient. The view we shall take of the case, however, supersedes the necessity of determining their validity. The Court certainly erred in excluding the note sued on from being received as evidence, upon the ground of variance from the instrument set out in the declaration.

¶3The declaration correctly describes the note, and sets out the assignment; and the instrument offered upon the trial corresponds precisely, in every particular, with it. It is true, the declaration does not, in its commencement, declare that the plaintiff in error sues as assignee, but, in the body of it, he makes a substantive averment-of that fact, and sets out, in hcec verba, the assignment of the note. It is clear that the terms of the note, or its legal tenor and effect, cannot be varied or explained away by the parol testimony offered. There is no ambiguity or uncertainty upon the face of the note, and therefore it is not allowed to be explained or qualified by oral evidence.

¶4Judgment revfersed.

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