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Guthrie v. White
Guthrie, assignee, v. White. Parties. The assignee of a simple-contract debt cannot maintain an action in his own name. A certiorari was issued to John Culbertson, Esq., one of the justices for the county of Chester, to remove the proceedin
Williams v. Geheogan
Williams v. Geheogan. Practice. — Special courts. Moylan, in showing cause against a rule for a special court, at the instance of the plaintiff, contended, first, that Williams was not within the description of the persons for whom the act
Henry v. Risk
Henry, Executor, v. Risk et al. Interest. Interest not allowed on an open account for goods sold and delivered. This was an action brought for goods sold and delivered in the city of Philadelphia, the plaintiff having charged interest upon
Walton v. Willis
*Walton v. Willis. Security for distributive shares. The orphans’ court ought to take recognizances, and not bonds, for payment of the distributive shares of an intestate’s estate. Where an heir-at-law took an intestate’s lands at a valuati
Chapman v. Steinmetz
*Chapman v. Steinmetz. Damages on protested bill. The payee of a bill, whio was neither paid nor received in satisfaction of a precedent debt, but upon the condition of its being honored, is not entitled to recover the twenty per cent, dama
Hollingsworth v. Ogle
APRIL TERM, 1788. Hollingsworth v. Ogle et al. Plea of payment. In debt on bond, on the plea of payment, the jury in this state may, and ought, to presume everything to be paid, which, ex cequo et bono, ought not to be paid. This was an act
Gilpin v. Semple
Gilpin v. Semple. Practice. — Rule to lake depositions. Hallowell moved for a rule to take the depositions if going witnesses, &c., before the return of the writ in this cause.
Schlosser v. Lesher
*Schlosser v. Lesher. Practice. — Rule for trial or nonpros. Ingersoll read an affidavit, stating the want of a material witness, who had been subpoenaed, and moved to put off the cause for that reason. Levy prayed, that, if the cause was c
Wallace v. Fitzsimmons
Wallace, surviving partner, v. Fitzsimmons, special bail. Pa/rlnershvp. Payment by the garnishee in a foreign attachment, of one-half of a debt attached for a partnership claim, to the executor of a deceased partner, is not sufficient to ex
James v. Young
*James et al. v. Young. Affidavit. An affidavit, to open a judgment, may be made by a third person, when the defendant is disabled by sickness. Judgment being entered by default, at the first term, Mifflin had obtained a rule to show cause
Penman v. Wayne
Penman et al. v. Wayne. Arrest of freeholder. Under the act of 1724-5, the court has a right to inquire into the circumstances of the arrest of a freeholder under a capias, and to relieve him, if they think he was intended by the act to be
Jackson v. Vanhorn
Jackson et al., Executors, v. Vanhorn. Opening default. Judgment opened, where defendant, by mistake of the attorney, had notice of trial on a wrong day. Judgment had been entered by non sum informatus, in this cause, as the defendant did n
Brown v. Sutter
Brown v. Sutter. Opening defcmlt.
Poultney v. Ross
MARCH TERM, 1788. Poultney et al. v. Ross. Evidence. — AccounfrhooJc. The shop-book of a tradesman is evidence to charge the original debtor only; it is not admissible against a defendant, who merely assumed to pay the debt of the person, t
Respublica v. Shaffer
FEBRUARY SESSIONS, 1788. Respublica v. Shaffer. Grcmd jury. Witnesses cannot be examined on the part of the defendant, by a grand jnry. After some conversation with the Grand Inquest, the Attorney-General informed the court, that a list of
Respublica v. St. Clair
Respublica versus St. Clair.
M'Kimm v. Riddle
M‘Kimm et al. Executors, versus Riddle. Assumpsit for goods sold and delivered. Pleas, non assumpsit, payment, &c. The plaintiffs, having proved the contract, were called on to produce their Letters Testamentary; but the Counsel insisted, t
Steinmetz v. Currey
* Steinmetz et al v. Currey. New trial. New trial granted, where the verdict was against the weight of the evidence. Notice of the protest of a bill must be given in a reasonable time. Motion for a new trial. The circumstances of the case w
Respublica v. Gordon
Respublica v. Gordon. Attainder. A suggestion of attainder dismissed by the court, on the ground, that it would contravene the treaty of peace with Great Britain. The.defendant was included in an act of proclamation issued during the late w
Miller v. Hall
JANUARY TERM, 1788. Miller v. Hall. Insolvency. Where a debt had been contracted in Maryland, of which state the defendant was a resident, but the plaintiff was a citizen of Pennsylvania, it was held, that a discharge under the general inso
Hocker v. Stricker
Hocker v. Stricker, under-sheriff. Replevin. In replevin, the sheriff ough t to allow the defendant a reasonable time to find security, before a removal of the goods; otherwise, it seems, he cannot justify under his writ.
Kuhn v. Trimer
*Kuhn v. Trimer. Set-off. The assignee of a bond, given by an insolvent, who obtained his discharge, after it became due, cannot use it as a set-off against the price of goods purchased from the obligor. The plaintiff had become bound to on
Eastwick v. Hugg
*Eastwick v. Hugg. Damages. A new trial was granted in an action for monea had and received, where the court had left it ta the jury to give such damages as they thought just, and the verdict was for a greater amount than the defendant had
Doane's Administrators v. Penhallow
SEPTEMBER TERM, 1787. Doane’s Administrators v. Penhallow et al. Jurisdietio n. — Prize. Where a vea-el had been captured by an American privateer, during the revolution, and condemned as prize, in the admiralty court of New Hampshire, and
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