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  "id": 8696778,
  "name": "Thomas Jones's Administrators v. Joseph Blount's Executors",
  "name_abbreviation": "Jones's Administrators v. Blount's Executors",
  "decision_date": "1795-10",
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  "first_page": "272",
  "last_page": "273",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "nominative",
      "cite": "1 Hayw. 272"
    },
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "2 N.C. 272"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Super. Ct.",
    "id": 22358,
    "name": "North Carolina Superior Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
  },
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T18:10:25.463344+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Thomas Jones\u2019s Administrators v. Joseph Blount\u2019s Executors."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per curiam,\nWilliams and Haywood\nThe law only, requires the best evidence the party has in his power.'\u2014 The subscribing witness must be produced when there is one; if he. be dead, proof of his handwriting may be admitted ; and if the handwriting of the witness cannot be proven, then proof of the handwriting of the obligor may be received ; this affording a strong evidence that the ob-ligor meant to make himself chargeable by that signature. And the Defendant in the present case, was permitted to prove the handwriting of the obligor.\nNote. Vide note to Clements & Co. v. Eason & Wright, ante 18.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Williams and Haywood"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [],
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    "head_matter": "Thomas Jones\u2019s Administrators v. Joseph Blount\u2019s Executors.\nWhen the subscribing witness to a bond is dead, and his handwriting cunncr be proved, proof of the handwriting of tho obligor may be received.\nDebt upon a bond for five hundred and twenty-sis pounds. The Defendant pleaded a set off, and produced two old bonds, one dated in 1760, the other in 1768, both attested ; but the witness who attested one of them, was a lady who had lived some time ago in Edenton, and was now dead; and her handwriting could not be proved by any one that the Defendant could procure.\nIt was objected by Mr. Hamilton for the Plaintiff, that when the handwrifing.of a deceased witness cannot be proved, it is irregular to prove the handwriting of the ob - ligar himself, that being riot essential to the deed, and not amounting to any proof of the delivery of it."
  },
  "file_name": "0272-01",
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  "last_page_order": 281
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