Comfort v. Leland
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas, of the county of Bucks, to remove the record of an action brought by Moses Comfort, treasurer of “ The Penn’s Manor Meadow Company,” against Joseph Leland.
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This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas, of the county of Bucks, to remove the record of an action brought by Moses Comfort, treasurer of “ The Penn’s Manor Meadow Company,” against Joseph Leland. The case came into the court below, by appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, in an action brought by the same plaintiff against the same defendant, to recover the sum of $79 19, the amount of a tax alleged to be due by the defendant to the Penn’s Manor Meadow Company, in respect to the land held by him in that meadow, subject to the assessments laid by the authority of…
1Opinion of the Court
Kennedy. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.—
The question raised by the first error assigned is, ought the court below to have permitted the plaintiff’s counsel to amend by introducing, both in their natural and official capacities, the trustees of “ The Penn’s Manor Meadow Company,” upon the record, as plaintiff’s in the action, instead of “ Moses Comfort, treasurer,” of the said company, in whose name it was brought before the justice. This question seems to present two others,— first. Was the amendment proper and necessary, in order to bring before the court and jury the real cause of…
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