Ridgway v. Farmers' Bank of Bucks County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. On a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bucles county, it appeared that au action was brought in that court by Jacob Ridgioay, the plaintiff below, against the Farmers’ Bank of Bucks county, on an order, or bill, for six thousand dollars,' drawn by Joseph Ilulme, president of the said bank, on the cashier of the same, dated the 23d of June, 1821, payable sixty days after date, to R. J. Hollingshead, or order, by whom the same was endorsed to the…
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IN ERROR. On a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bucles county, it appeared that au action was brought in that court by Jacob Ridgioay, the plaintiff below, against the Farmers’ Bank of Bucks county, on an order, or bill, for six thousand dollars,' drawn by Joseph Ilulme, president of the said bank, on the cashier of the same, dated the 23d of June, 1821, payable sixty days after date, to R. J. Hollingshead, or order, by whom the same was endorsed to the plaintiff. The bank refused .payment, and denied the authority of the president to draw the bill. In order to prove the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Txughman, C. J.
It is a rule of law, that where an original is of a public nature, and admissible in evidence, an examined copy is evidence. This rule is necessary, for the preservation of public *263papers, and for the public convenience, because those papers should always be in a known place, to which access may be had by all.. As au example of what may be called public papers, the English authors mention the journals of both houses of parliament, entries in the books of the Bank of England, and of the East India Company, parish registers, the books of…
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