Bond and Another v. Jay
| Decision Date | 20 February 1813 |
| Parties | BOND AND ANOTHER v. JAY |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Maryland in an action of assumpsit brought by Bond and Brooks against Jay, surviving partner of Samuel Jay and Gabriel Christie, trading under the firm of Samuel Jay and Company, upon an account for merchandize sold and delivered. The Defendant, Jay, pleaded the statute of limitations of Maryland, 1715, ch. 23, which limits actions of assumpsit to three years after the cause of action shall have accrued.
To this plea the Plaintiffs replied 'that at the time when the several sums of money in the declaration mentioned grew due, viz. on the 20th of March, 1799 and long before, to wit, on the 27th of November, 1797, and from thence until the said 20th of March, and from the said last mentioned day until the suing forth the original writ in this suit, the Plaintiffs were merchants, carrying on trade and merchandize under the name and firm of Bond and Brooks, and residing and carrying on trade without the limits of the district aforesaid, and of the state of Maryland, viz. at Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania; and that at the several times aforesaid the said Jay and Christie were merchants, trading under the firm of Samuel Jay and Company, and residing and carrying on trade at and within the district aforesaid, and that on the said several days, and on sundry days from the first of those days to the second of those days the Plaintiffs were engaged in mutual trade and merchandize with the said Jay and Christie, by reason of which trade, and of and concerning the same, the said several sums of money in the declaration mentioned grew due to the Plaintiffs, and this they are ready to verify; wherefore,' &c.
To this replication the Defendant rejoined, that the Plaintiffs ought not to have and maintain their said action by reason of any thing alleged in their replication aforesaid; because, protesting, that the said several sums of money in the declaration aforesaid mentioned do not concern the trade and merchandize between merchant and merchant; and also protesting that the Plaintiffs have not continued to reside without the state of Maryland and district aforesaid since the contracting and growing due of the said several sums of money, and until the suing out the original writ in this cause; yet, for answer to the said replication, the said Samuel Jay says that true it is that at the time of the contracting and growing due of the said several sums of money, he, the said Samuel and the said Christie, were merchants and residents within the state and district of Maryland aforesaid, and continued to reside therein until the decease of the said Christie, and the said Samuel has continued to reside therein ever since; and that the several sums of money in the declaration mentioned had become due and were payable on the 20th of March, 1799, to wit, at the district aforesaid; and that afterwards, to wit, on the 20th of May, 1799, the Plaintiffs returned to, came, and were within the state aforesaid, to wit, at the district aforesaid; and that afterwards, to wit, on the 18th day of October, 1799, the said Joshua B. Bond came to, and was within the said state, viz. at the district aforesaid; and that the original writ in this cause was sued forth on the 19th day of May, 1809, and not before; and so the said Samuel Jay saith that three years and more had elapsed and expired, after the return of the Plaintiffs and of the said Joshua B. Bond to, and after their being within the said state and district, and after the contracting and growing due of the said several sums of money, and before the suing out of the said original writ in this cause, viz. at the district aforesaid; and this the said Samuel is ready to verify, wherefore,' &c.
To this rejoinder there was a general demurrer and joinder. The Court below overruled the demurrer, and adjudged the rejoinder to be good; whereupon judgment was rendered for the Defendant, and the Plaintiffs sued out their writ of error.
The act of assembly of Maryland, 1715, ch. 23, enacts, 'that all actions of trespass quare clausum fregit, all...
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