Bierbower's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of York county: Iii Equity : Of January Term, 1884, No. 226. This was an appeal by H. C. Bierbower and Margaret, his wife, from a decree of said court, sustaining a demurrer to a bill in equity filed by them against Samuel Laird and Edward D. Bentzel, and dismissing the bill. The bill averred in substance that the defendant Samuel Laird, as surety for IP.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of York county: Iii Equity : Of January Term, 1884, No. 226. This was an appeal by H. C. Bierbower and Margaret, his wife, from a decree of said court, sustaining a demurrer to a bill in equity filed by them against Samuel Laird and Edward D. Bentzel, and dismissing the bill. The bill averred in substance that the defendant Samuel Laird, as surety for IP. C. Bierbower, having paid a certain sum of money due by the latter, obtained from Mrs. Margaret Bierbower assignments of certain judgment notes which she held against her husband, said assignments being…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Gokdoít
delivered the opinion of the court, October 6, 1884.
As the court below dismissed the plaintiffs’ bill after argument on a demurrer alleging a want of chancery jurisdiction, we have but to examine that bill in order to determine the rectitude of the decree which turned the complainants out of court. The bill alleges that to April Term, 1879, suit was instituted by'the administrators of Jacob Meyers, deceased, on a joint and several bill executed by Henry C. Bierbower, with Samuel Laird, one of the defendants, as surety, in favor of the said administrators, and' that the…
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