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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1668. 359 Patrick Due plt Rozer p quer Liber FF John Grammer deft Morecroft p deftf [p. 659] This Cause being an appeale from the County Court of Caluert and here resplted from last Court unto which the said John Grammer doth now demurre and saith that in prosecucon of the said Appeale the said John Grammer by John Morecroft his Attorney saith that matter in Euidence by the said Patrick due giuen is not sufficient in law to proue the Issue Joyned betwixt them and this he is ready to auerre Wherefore for default of sufficient Euidence hee Craueth Judgmt against the said Patiick if &c And the deft Joyneth in demurrer Ben: Rozer Opinion of the Bench that it is no sufficient Euidence wherefore Judgmt past agt the said Patrick Due John Blomfeild gent was this day Sworne Attorny of this Court According to the Oath for Attornys Daniel Jenifer plaintiffe Jenifer p p Cuthbert witham deft Morecroft p def The plt sues the defendt in a plea that hee render him Twenty Two Thousand Seauen hundred & twelue pounds of tobacco wth he oweth him and unjustly doth detaine &c: The defendt replyes (uizt) And the said Cuthbert by John Morecroft his Attorny cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when &c: and as to the Two and Twenty thowsand Seauen hundred and twelue pounds of tobacco in the declaracon menconed the said John saith hee is not informed by the said Cuthbert his Clyent of any Answere thereunto to giue There- fore the said Daniel doth remaine against him the said Cuthbert as to the said sume of Two and Twenty thowsand Seauen hundred and twelue pounds of tobacco undefended, non Sum informatus Jn0 Morecroft Therefore it is Ordred by the Court here that the saide Daniel recouer of the said Cuthbert the said Sume of Twenty Two Thow- sand Seauen hundred & twelue pounds of tobacco Costs The said Daniel doth humbly pray the Court here to grant him an Elegit against the Estate of the aforesaid Cuthbert witham for his aforesaid debt of Twenty Two Thowsand Seauen hundred and twelue pounds of tobacco Costs which said Elegit by the Court here to the said Daniel is granted Daniel Jenifer plaintiffe Jenifer p p [p. 66o] John pltt defendant Morecroft p def: The plt sues the defendt in an accon of debt for Seauen thousand Foure hundred & Sixty pounds of tobacco and Caske |
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