Ward v. Patterson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was a scire facias on a mechanic’s lien, to recover a balance alleged to be due to the plaintiff for furnishing materials, and erecting eighteen dwelling-houses in the city of Pittsburgh. It was first tried in January 1852, and a verdict rendered for the defendant.
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Error, to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was a scire facias on a mechanic’s lien, to recover a balance alleged to be due to the plaintiff for furnishing materials, and erecting eighteen dwelling-houses in the city of Pittsburgh. It was first tried in January 1852, and a verdict rendered for the defendant. A motion was made for a new trial, which, on the 7th of July.1852, was granted, on the terms that the plaintiff was to file, within a reasonable time, a specification of the amount of his claim, and pay the costs. He filed, in a few days after his claim, substantially as…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, J.
The first trial of this cause resulted, on the 28th January 1852, in a verdict for the defendants below, now plaintiffs in error. On the 7th July 1852, the District Court, in which the trial and verdict occurred, set aside the verdict, and granted a new trial “ upon condition that plaintiff pay the costs of the term, the docket costs, defendant’s bill to be taxed by the prothonotary, and that plaintiff, within reasonable time, file of record in this case a specification of the amount or just balance of the claim alleged to be due from…
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