Anderson's Executors v. Long
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county. The suit was debt on bond, brought by the plaintiffs, Mary Anderson, William Barber, Bushnel Carter, exectítors of James Anderson, deceased, against Benjamin Long, Abraham Long, and Christian Long, defendants, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the defendants, in the court below.
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This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county. The suit was debt on bond, brought by the plaintiffs, Mary Anderson, William Barber, Bushnel Carter, exectítors of James Anderson, deceased, against Benjamin Long, Abraham Long, and Christian Long, defendants, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the defendants, in the court below. The bond was dated the 1st April, 1813, and was in the penalty of 10,000 dollars, conditioned for the payment of 5,000 dollars, to the said James Anderson, on the 1st April, 1815. The defendants pleaded payment, with…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tilghman, C. J.
This is an action of debt on a bond for 5,000 dollars, payable the 1st April, 1815, brought by the executors of James Anderson, deceased, the obligee, against Benjamin, Abraham, and Christian Long, the obligors. The defendants pleaded payment with leave, &c.; replication, non-payment, and issue. The bond was given in consideration of some real estate in the Borough of Marietta, in Lancaster county, sold by James Anderson to Benjamin Long, one of the defendants, and the defence set up was of a threefold nature. First, fraud in the…
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