Denison v. Cornwell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Susquehanna county. Cornwell sued Denison in the court below, and declared in assumpsit for goods, &c. sold, for work and labour, care and diligence, money lent and advanced, and money had and received. Pleas, non-assumpsit, set-off and payment.
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IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Susquehanna county. Cornwell sued Denison in the court below, and declared in assumpsit for goods, &c. sold, for work and labour, care and diligence, money lent and advanced, and money had and received. Pleas, non-assumpsit, set-off and payment. The record sets .forth, that the plaintiff gave in evidence (inter alia,) as follows: — “That the said plaintiff went to live with the defendant when about twelve years of age, and continued to reside with him, and in his employ for about nine years, went to school some, but the principal part of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smith J.
This is an action on the case, brought.by the defendant in error, Nathaniel Cornwell, against Mason Denison, the plaintiff in error, who was defendant below, in which a verdict and judgment for three hundred dollars were rendered in favour of the former. The declaration is in indebitatus assumpsit, and.contains four counts, for goods, &c. sold and delivered, for work, labour and services, for money lent and advanced, and for money had and' received. The facts were as follows: — Nathaniel Cornwell, the plaintiff, at the age of twelye years, went…
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