Rangler v. Hummel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Union county. This was an action on the case for defamation of character, brought in the Common Pleas of Union county, in the name of Peter Hummel and Hannah his wife v. Daniel Rangier. A declaration was filed by plaintiff, to which the plea of “not guilty” was entered.
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Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Union county. This was an action on the case for defamation of character, brought in the Common Pleas of Union county, in the name of Peter Hummel and Hannah his wife v. Daniel Rangier. A declaration was filed by plaintiff, to which the plea of “not guilty” was entered. Some time after the suit was brought, P. Hummel — who had not lived with his wife for some years — filed a paper in the cause, denying that he had ever authorized it, and asking the court to mark it “ discontinued,” which was refused. By leave of the court, an additional count was then…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, J.
— The Court of Common Pleas permitted the plaintiff to strike out the name of Peter Hummel, her husband, in whose name, together with that of the plaintiff, his wife, the suit had been originally brought; and this constitutes one of the assignments of error in the case.
We have so often decided, under our several statutes of amendments, that parties might be stricken out, or added, whenever this was necessary to a trial on the merits of the case, that we do not deem it necessary to cite authorities on the subject. This is the plain…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Hays v. BrierlySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1835
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