5 Whart. 487 | Pa. | 1840
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
The charge of Mr. Justice Beli, to the jury, contains so clear an exposition of the facts and the law of this case, that little remains to be doné, except to declare our 'approbation of the principles of the charge, and to. affirm the judgment for the reasons assigned. The jury have found, that the bill of exchange on which this suit was brought, was accepted in payment and discharge of the original debt; and consequently it became as much a new, substantive and independent cause of action, as if the debt had arisen from an entirely different transaction. From this it results, that in the first suit the plaintiffs could riot have recovered the amount of the bill of exchange, on a declaration containing the common counts and on an account stated. What then is this, but an attempt by parol to contradict a record, by introducing a different cause of
Judgment affirmed.