Brinton v. Walker & Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 155, Oct. T., 1900, by plaintiff, in suit of Victor Brinton against Walker & Company, from judgment of C. P. Chester Co., April T., 1900, No. 62, on verdict for defendants. Per Curiam. Interpleader. Before Butler, J. It appears from the record that an interpleader was framed to try the title of the plaintiff to certain property taken in execution. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 155, Oct. T., 1900, by plaintiff, in suit of Victor Brinton against Walker & Company, from judgment of C. P. Chester Co., April T., 1900, No. 62, on verdict for defendants. Per Curiam. Interpleader. Before Butler, J. It appears from the record that an interpleader was framed to try the title of the plaintiff to certain property taken in execution. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was in its general charge to the jury as follows: “You will realize that the serious question, the only question which is presented here in effect, is whether or not…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The plaintiff’s mode of assigning error in the charge is not to be commended, and we are not disposed to give it a seeming approval by silence. After quoting one sentence and part of the succeeding one, he then skips to the third sentence, and, after quoting part of it and omitting part, as well as the sentence which immediately follows, he concludes with the sentence that follows. It is no excuse to say that the omitted portions of sentences and the omitted sentence thus dismembered from the portion of the charge assigned as error do not relate to the same matter, for that is not…
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