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  "id": 12125808,
  "name": "SHEPPARD versus SALTER",
  "name_abbreviation": "Sheppard v. Salter",
  "decision_date": "1796-09",
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  "first_page": "40",
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Super. Ct.",
    "id": 22358,
    "name": "North Carolina Superior Court"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "judges": [
      "M\u2019Coy, J. tacente."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "SHEPPARD versus SALTER."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "The Court\nsaid he ought to have prayed a continuance.\nBut on his observing that he had thought that by going to trial and satisfying the court, by the testimony of a witness who attended, that he had a good cause of action, and that he failed only on the proof of a re-assumption: the justice of the case being on his side, he would appear entitled to the favour he prayed:\nDavit for the plaintiff. Arnett for the defendant.\nStone, J.\nLet the nonsuit be set aside, on payments of full costs.\nM\u2019Coy, J. tacente.",
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        "author": "The Court Stone, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Davit for the plaintiff. Arnett for the defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Newbern,\nSeptember Term, 1796.\nSHEPPARD versus SALTER.\nCASE sur assumpsit. The plaintiff went to trial; proved his debt but could not give evidence to repel the plea of the statute limitations: and suffered a nonsuit.\nHe afterwards offered an affidavit that one of his witnesses, whose testimony he would have been able to prove a re-assumption within three years, was at his counsel's elbow a little before the cause came on, but was out of the court-house at the time he was called.\u2014Whereupon he prayed that the nonsuit be set aside."
  },
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