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1780. 4 Term. Thursday Nov. 2.

Fergusson and Light who had Demurred, but retain’d as to the other Defendant.
Mr. Newman cited 2d Ventris 366, to shew that this Bill must be dismiss’d because it Pray’d the examination of Witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam and also Pray’d General Releif and that the Defendant should be compell’d to perform the Decree of the Court. And to another Point he cited 2d Equity Cases Abridged page 78. Vernon & Swimburn.
The Bill was totally informal and contain’d a confused narative of some Transactions concerning a Draught or Bill of Exchange drawn in Siam by Dixon the Plaintiff, and payable by Frissney who died at Siam, but this Bill had no Charges to which the interrogatories should be applied.
There was a joinder in Demurrer much like a joinder in Demurrer at Common Law, and it was doubted whether this was the usual form in Equity. Mr. Fay said it was, and that he had written it from his Memory of what he had seen in an Old Book, but he
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