Craighead v. McLoney
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Washington county: Of October and November Term-1881, No. 62. Debt, by James McLoney against James Craighead, upon the following note under seal: $1,080. March 31st 1868. One day after date we, or either of us, promise to pay to James McLoney, or order, $1,080, without defalcation, for value received. Witness our hands and seals, at eight per cent, interest.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Washington county: Of October and November Term-1881, No. 62. Debt, by James McLoney against James Craighead, upon the following note under seal: $1,080. March 31st 1868. One day after date we, or either of us, promise to pay to James McLoney, or order, $1,080, without defalcation, for value received. Witness our hands and seals, at eight per cent, interest. Jqhn Haines, [seal.] James Craighead, [seal.] Defendant filed a special' plea, setting out, “ that the said supposed writing obligatory was not his deed.” Upon the trial, before Hart, P. J., after…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shabswood
There is a wilderness of cases in the books on the subject of the alterations of notes and other instruments of writing, through which it would require much time and labor, and great ingenuity, for any one to thread his way. Of course they are not all consistent and easily reconciled. Fortunately, it is not required of us to attempt this task in the present case. Perhaps a key to this variety and want of harmony may be found in the remark of Mr. Chief Justice Thompson, in Kountz v. Kennedy, 13 P. F. Smith 190: “ There is no subject in the books which has
occupied a much larger share of…
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