Masser v. Strickland
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. This was a writ of error to Northumberland county; by the return to which, the action appeared tobe an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, on a scire facias against the defendants below and plaintiffs in error, as bail of one Joseph Bichardson, formerly constable of S,unbury.
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IN ERROR. This was a writ of error to Northumberland county; by the return to which, the action appeared tobe an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, on a scire facias against the defendants below and plaintiffs in error, as bail of one Joseph Bichardson, formerly constable of S,unbury. At the trial, the plaintiffs offered in evidence the record of a judgment for the same cause of action against Richardson, the constable, to which the defendants objected, but it was admitted, and the court sealed a hill of exceptions. The defendants in turn offered to prove, that Row, the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Huston, J.
The defendant in error, who was plaintiff below, had brought a suit in the year 1818, before-Martin,Esq., against Andrew Row, on which he obtained judgment, and on the 30th of September, ISIS, issued execution, which was put into the hands of Joseph Richardson, constable of the proper township. The money not being paid, Strickland had á scire facias issued against Richardson for neglect of duty; and on trial before thejustice obtained judgment against him on. the 21st of September, Í821, for thirty-five dollars and forty-one cents, and one…
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