Subject_1 WRIT.
Subject_2 SECT. VIII. Privileged Writs.
Date: Goodlet-Campbell
v.
Lennox
18 December 1739
Case No.No. 230.
A missive letter not holograph, acknowledged to have been subscribed, found obligatory in re mercatoria.
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A missive letter of credit acknowleged to be subscribed by the party, though not holograph, was found obligatory, being in re mercatoria.
This was a letter wrote by one country gentleman to another, recommending one as a sufficient merchant for his victual; and so was in effect in re mercatoria.
*** See C. Home's report of this case, No. 171. p. 16932.
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