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  "id": 8698507,
  "name": "ALEXANDER DONALDSON vs. JOHN BENTON",
  "name_abbreviation": "Donaldson v. Benton",
  "decision_date": "1839-12",
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  "first_page": "435",
  "last_page": "437",
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      "cite": "3 Dev. & Bat. 435"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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  "provenance": {
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    "source": "Harvard",
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    "parties": [
      "ALEXANDER DONALDSON vs. JOHN BENTON."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Gaston, Judge.\nIt cannot be contended that Bank notes are a lawful tender, and it is equally plain that parol evidence is not admissible to contradict the written agreement. The opinion of the Judge is so obviously right upon both these points \u2014 each of which is fatal to the plaintiff\u2019s recovery\u2014 that it necessarily follows that the judgment must be affirmed with costs.\nPer Curiam,. \u25a0 Judgment affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Gaston, Judge."
      }
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    "attorneys": [
      "No counsel appeared for the plaintiff in-this Court.",
      "Cliiigmctn for the defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "ALEXANDER DONALDSON vs. JOHN BENTON.\nBank notes are not a lawful tender in fulfilment of a contract to pay money.\nParol evidence is not admissible to vary, explain, or contradict an agreement in writing.\nThis was an action of Assumpsit, brought to recover damages for a breach of contract in not delivering hogs. The plaintiff alleged, upon the trial at Buncombe, on the last circuit, before his honor Judge Pearson, that he had purchased of the defendant a drove of two hundred and sixty hogs, for which he was to pay at the rate of $6:1? 1-2 cts. gross\u2014 the hogs to be weighed and delivered in Asheville, but the price, except $100. which was paid at the time of the contract, not to be paid until he should sell the hogs in Columbia, South Carolina; and that the defendant had failed to deliver the hogs in Asheville. The plaintiff, in support of his cas\u00e9, offered -in evidence a receipt for the \u00a7100, in the follow-wor<^s:\nDec. 1839\n\u201cRec\u2019d. of Alexander Donaldson one hundred dollars, in part pay 0f two hundred and sixty hogs, to be delivered at six dollars and twelve and one half cents gross. This 16th of Nov. 1836. ;\n(Signed) ALEX\u2019R. DONALDSON.\nJOHN - BENTON.\u201d\nTest, C. W. Latham-\u201d\nAnd a paper writing, under seal, purporting to be articles of agreement in the words following to wit:\n\u201cArticles of agreement made and entered into this day.\u2014 Whereas Alexauder Donaldson, binds himself, his heirs and assigns, to pay or cause to be paid to John Benton six dollars and twelve and one half cents gross, at Ashville, N. C., for two hundred and sixty hogs, when delivered. Witness, my hand and seal, this 16th of Nov. 1836. '\n(Signed) ' JOHN BENTON, seal.\nALEX. DONALDSON, seal.\u201d\nTest, C. W. Latham.\u201d\nBoth the receipt and the articles of agreement were executed at the time-when the contract was made, and the plaintiff kept the receipt and the defendant the articles of agreement.\nHis Honor intimated an opinion that the action should have been covenant; but reserved the point, and permitted the plaintiff to proceed; and he then proved that the defendant had- the hogs in Ashville at the time agreed on; that he requested the defendant to have them weighed and delivered; in reply to which the defendant asked him if he was ready to pay the money. The plaintiff replied, \u201c our agreement was, that .the money was to be paid in Columbia, when I sold the hogs, and I was to pay your expenses to go there and receive it-\u201d The defendant'then said, \u201c1 must have the money here \u2014 if I go to Columbia, I take the hogs there as my own.\u201d The plaintiff then tendered the defendant the money in North Carolina Bank notes; but he refused to take Bank notes, except Kentucky bills or specie, saying that North Carolina notes would not do for him in Kentucky. The plaintiff was unable to procure specie or Kentucky bills.and the defendant drove the hogs to the South and sold them.\nHis Honor then intimated an opinion that the plaintiff had i i- r- i , , , \u2018, not made out his case, for that thedefendant had a right to require specie or Kentucky bills, in Ashville, at the time the hogs were to be delivered, and was not obliged to accept the North Carolina bills; that the evidence tending to show that the money was not to be paid until the hogs were taken to Columbia and sold, was not admissible to vary, explain or contradict the agreement in writing.\u201d Upon these intimations, the plaintiff submitted to a nonsuit and appealed.\nNo counsel appeared for the plaintiff in-this Court.\nCliiigmctn for the defendant."
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