Fleming v. Beck
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ekkor to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. This was an action before a justice of the peace by George Beck against Alexander Fleming, and came into the Common Pleas by appeal of defendant. The plaintiff claimed to recover on a parol contract for dressing two pairs of burr mill-stones, and for some work and labour at a chimney flue, and for cleaning the forebay of the mill. The mill-stones were to be put in good running order, for sixteen dollars a pair.
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Ekkor to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. This was an action before a justice of the peace by George Beck against Alexander Fleming, and came into the Common Pleas by appeal of defendant. The plaintiff claimed to recover on a parol contract for dressing two pairs of burr mill-stones, and for some work and labour at a chimney flue, and for cleaning the forebay of the mill. The mill-stones were to be put in good running order, for sixteen dollars a pair. The plaintiff proceeded with the job, and started the mill. The defence was that the work was so unskilfully done as not to answer the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, hy
Agnew, J.
— It would he sufficient to say, in relation to the rejection of'James Reissman’s deposition, that we rely .greatly upon the interpretation of the court below of its own rules. But as the rule is one that at one time governed the practice in Western Pennsylvania, its construction is well known to some of the members of this court.
Westmoreland and Allegheny counties (from which Armstrong was taken), together with Eayette and Washington, in 1791 and for some time afterwards, constituted the fifth circuit or district, then comprehending the…
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