A cause came on to be tried before Lord Mansfield, in which Mr. Wilson was plaintiff, and Dr. Myersbatch (the late water Doctor) was defendant, for the recovery of 200l. for a bill of exchange returned from Germany. The Dr. so long ago as 1779, drew a bill to this own order on a person in an obscure place near Hamborough. This bill was returned protested; and the defendant, being then abroad, could not come in at till last summer, when the action was brought. He set up a two-fold defence; one, that he had no value for the bill; the other, that he had failed to give notice of non-payment in due time, and therefore had made the bill his own. But both pleas failing, the jury gave a verdict for the whole sum, with interest and costs of suit.