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79 Mass. 536

Harvey v. Dewitt

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided September 15, 1859

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1859-09-15

Action of contract, commenced in April 1858. The declaration contained three counts, the first of which alleged that the defendant owed the plaintiff $571.48 for money paid by the plaintiff for the defendant and at his request, and interest thereon; and the second, that the defendant owed the plaintiff $571.48, being seven eighths of the amount paid by the plaintiff at the defendant’s request for rebuilding and repairing a dam in Pepperell, in which the plaintiff and…

Decided 1859-09-15

Shaw, C. J.

¶1With all the brevity and latitude allowed by tne practice act of 1852, c. 312, and the St. of 1853, c. 371, in the forms of declaration, this action cannot, we think, be maintained. It attempts to combine, in one suit, matters purely of law, and matters in equity. It cannot be maintained as a suit in equity; because it is apparent that, as to the claim in the first count at least, the plaintiff, if he has any remedy, has a plain, adequate and complete remedy at law. Nor can it be maintained as a suit at law; because it was brought originally in this court, without an affidavit stating that the amount sought to be recovered exceeded three hundred dollars. St. 1840, c. 87, § 1 New Braintree v. Southworth, 4 Gray, 307.

¶2Demurrer sustained; judgment for the defendant, with costs, but without prejudice.

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