Hannay v. Stewart
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to Warren county. James Stewart against Jackson Hannay. This was an action on the case, founded upon the allegation that the plaintiff had endorsed a note for Oliver Parker, who failed to pay it, and he was obliged to pay the money; and that at the time the said Oliver Parker was the agent of the defendant, and the money had been borrowed for the use of the defendant, and that the plaintiff had endorsed it upon his credit.
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ERROR to Warren county. James Stewart against Jackson Hannay. This was an action on the case, founded upon the allegation that the plaintiff had endorsed a note for Oliver Parker, who failed to pay it, and he was obliged to pay the money; and that at the time the said Oliver Parker was the agent of the defendant, and the money had been borrowed for the use of the defendant, and that the plaintiff had endorsed it upon his credit. The facts of the case and. the points which arose are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The first error is an exception to the admission *488in evidence of a certified copy of a letter of attorney, from Jackson Hannay, the plaintiff in error, who was the defendant below, to Oliver Parker, which had been recorded in the recorder’s office of Warren comity. The copy, offered, was certified under the hand and seal of the recorder; but objected to,'because it was not offered for the purpose of establishing any matter relative to land or real estate, and, therefore, not made evidence by the recording acts. It may be that this objection…
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