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lilCHARD PATCH.
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cerns; he executed several instruments, and made various al-
terations in’ his property, for the purpose of protecting it
against their claims; therefore, from the papers of such a
person no satisfactory evidence can possibly be expected;
on his statement as to his claim, or his declarations as to any
instrument, no reliance can be placed; many apparently so-
lemn instruments were undoubtedly fictitious ; as for example,
the assignment of the 15th .of July, and all other papers con-
nected with that transaction. Who can say what instruments
were genuine, or what was the real cause or actual purpose
of the execution of such documents? The 1250/. which
was for the purchase of one-third of the business, was paid
him before that business was assigned to me. On the 15th
of July, when he conveys his property to me to protect it
from his creditors, he there values it at 20657. 4s.; the real
value, as it appears, was 3315/. It would have been valued
to me in this transfer at the price of 3315/. had it not been
known that I had before that time paid 1250/., which, added
to 2065/., makes up the whole 3315/. As he had received
from me the 1250/. I was to have an interest to that amount
jn the business, and the 2065/. that was mentioned in the
transfer, was to be invested in him when we came to a final
settlement. On the 30th of August, when that settlement
took place, he takes two-thirds of the trade for this 2065/.
and leaves me one-third for my 1250/. From neither of
these instruments is there any appearance of any thing re-
maining unpaid on my part; every thing respecting the trans-
action, as appears by the instruments', was closed. It is sup-
posed that the 1250/. was paid in part by a check upon Mr,
Goom; but it is perfectly incredible, that Mr. Blight, who
had been engaged as a merchant all his life, should take a
post-dated check of me, on a person he did not know, in pay-
ment of the sum of 1000/., and that without ever enquiring
of Mr. Goom, whether I had any right to draw upon him
for it.
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cerns; he executed several instruments, and made various al-
terations in’ his property, for the purpose of protecting it
against their claims; therefore, from the papers of such a
person no satisfactory evidence can possibly be expected;
on his statement as to his claim, or his declarations as to any
instrument, no reliance can be placed; many apparently so-
lemn instruments were undoubtedly fictitious ; as for example,
the assignment of the 15th .of July, and all other papers con-
nected with that transaction. Who can say what instruments
were genuine, or what was the real cause or actual purpose
of the execution of such documents? The 1250/. which
was for the purchase of one-third of the business, was paid
him before that business was assigned to me. On the 15th
of July, when he conveys his property to me to protect it
from his creditors, he there values it at 20657. 4s.; the real
value, as it appears, was 3315/. It would have been valued
to me in this transfer at the price of 3315/. had it not been
known that I had before that time paid 1250/., which, added
to 2065/., makes up the whole 3315/. As he had received
from me the 1250/. I was to have an interest to that amount
jn the business, and the 2065/. that was mentioned in the
transfer, was to be invested in him when we came to a final
settlement. On the 30th of August, when that settlement
took place, he takes two-thirds of the trade for this 2065/.
and leaves me one-third for my 1250/. From neither of
these instruments is there any appearance of any thing re-
maining unpaid on my part; every thing respecting the trans-
action, as appears by the instruments', was closed. It is sup-
posed that the 1250/. was paid in part by a check upon Mr,
Goom; but it is perfectly incredible, that Mr. Blight, who
had been engaged as a merchant all his life, should take a
post-dated check of me, on a person he did not know, in pay-
ment of the sum of 1000/., and that without ever enquiring
of Mr. Goom, whether I had any right to draw upon him
for it.