Subject_1 BILL OF EXCHANGE.
Drummond
v.
Graham
1744 ,Jan .5 .
Case No.No. 34.
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A bill bearing annualrent and penalty, being put in suit long after the alleged acceptor's death, a proof was brought to astruct the bill, and it was indeed very convincing, but it was only by parole evidence. We sustained the objection to the bill; renit. multum President, Arniston, &c.; and it carried indeed by the smallest majority to adhere to our former interlocutor of 9th December last.
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