Poe v. Foster
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the District Court of Erie county. This was an action on the case by William B. Foster against George Poe, Jr. The facts of the case were so voluminous, and involved so little principle, as not to justify any other statement of them than that contained in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
— In the year 1818, William B. Foster became agent of the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Transporting Company, and H. Baldwin, Wm. Wilkins and Wm. Robison, were his sureties in a bond of $5000 to that company; and to secure them he assigned a claim against David M’Nair, on which they obtained a judgment for $1900. Of November term 1821, the Bank of Pennsylvania obtained a judgment against Henry Baldwin of $1966, and issued a fieri facias to January 1822, which is marked “ Stayed by plaintiff’s attorney, $1000 paid 26th of March 1823.” So is the…