Struthers v. Drexel

This is an action of assumpsit brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error and Thomas S. Blair, the latter not having been served with process. The declaration contained two special counts, as follows:.

“For that whereas heretofore, to wit, on the 4th day of April, a.d. 1873,' at New Tort, to wit, in the Western District of Pennsylvania aforesaid, in consideration that the said plaintiff, at the special instance and request of the said defendants, would take and pay for, at the rate of $50.00 per share, four hundred (400) shares of the capital stock of the Blair Iron and…