Craft ex rel. Powell v. Webster
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This case came before the court on a writ of error to the Court ¡of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, in which it was an action of covenant, brought by John Craft for the use of William Powell .against William Webster. When the cause came on for trial, the counsel agreed that the jurv should find a verdict in conformity to the opinion of the court, upon a case to be stated, in the nature of a special verdict.
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This case came before the court on a writ of error to the Court ¡of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, in which it was an action of covenant, brought by John Craft for the use of William Powell .against William Webster. When the cause came on for trial, the counsel agreed that the jurv should find a verdict in conformity to the opinion of the court, upon a case to be stated, in the nature of a special verdict. It was in substance as follows: Jonathan Craft and Mary his wife, George Craft, John Craft and 'Elizabeth his wife, Edward Holcombe and Ann his wife, and Jacob Croft, by indenture dated…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
This case was removed by writ of error from the Court of Common Pleas, of Montgomery County. It is an action of covenant commenced there by the plaintiff in error, to recover from the defendant in error the one-fifth of six hundred and forty-four dollars and seventeen cents, with interest from the time of the death of a certain Alice Craft.
On the trial of the cause in the court below, it appeared that John Craft, the nominal plaintiff in conjunction with his wife, and his brothers Jonathan Craft and his wife, George Craft, Jacob Craft, and…
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