
    Case No. 5,238.
    GARDNER et al. v. TENNISON.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 338.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Oct. Term, 1822.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch. Chief Judge.]
    
   THE COURT

(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent),

on motion of the plaintiff’s counsel,

instructed the jury, that if they should be satisfied by the evidence that the account was assigned by the plaintiffs to Lay, and that the defendant had notice of such assignment. his payments to the plaintiffs after such notice, could not be given in evidence in this action.  