Lytle v. Mehaffy
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the district court of Lancaster county. James Mehaffy and James Duffy against Joseph Lytle, who survived John Pedan. The parties agreed to consider the facts of this case in the nature of a special verdict; and they are thus stated and decided upon by the court below, (Hays, president.) In the year 1813, John Pedan (now deceased) entered with Joseph Lytle, as his surety, in a bond to Mrs Frances Evans, conditioned to pay her the sum of 24,290 dollars 62j cents.
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ERROR to the district court of Lancaster county. James Mehaffy and James Duffy against Joseph Lytle, who survived John Pedan. The parties agreed to consider the facts of this case in the nature of a special verdict; and they are thus stated and decided upon by the court below, (Hays, president.) In the year 1813, John Pedan (now deceased) entered with Joseph Lytle, as his surety, in a bond to Mrs Frances Evans, conditioned to pay her the sum of 24,290 dollars 62j cents. James Mehaffy, James Duffy and Henry Share were co-obligors in the same bond. A considerable portion of this debt having…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The various positions affirmed and laid down by ¡the court below, which have been excepted to in this case, are all, •as we conceive, perfectly correct and tenable; most of them are so plain to the legal mind as to be self-evident, and therefore require no argument to be made or reasons to be adduced in order to establish or make them more so. What, however, is said in regard 'to the statute of limitations and some other matters, not being a ■bar, or interposing an obstacle to the recovery of the plaintiff, seem from their nature and…
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