THE PRESIDENT, after consideration, stated the circumstances of the case, and delivered the opinion of the Court, in the following manner:
SHIPPEN, President.
The facts were shortly these: — The Defendant, then Sheriff of Gloucester county in New-Jersey, having in his hands a sum of money belonging to the Plaintiff, who resided in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1772, with the consent of the Plaintiff, lent it to one of his...
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