Crawford v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Mifflin county. This was a-scire facias upon a judgment obtained upon an administration bond, in which “ The Commonwealth, for escheat on information of Daniel Rodebaugh,” was plaintiff, and “ David Crawford and Joseph Douglass surviving obligors in a bond, with James Mackey and William Beale, Esq.” were defendants ; on the trial of which the following facts appeared in evidence. 'Henry Doran, late of Mifflin county, died intestate, and as was…
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ERROR to the common pleas of Mifflin county. This was a-scire facias upon a judgment obtained upon an administration bond, in which “ The Commonwealth, for escheat on information of Daniel Rodebaugh,” was plaintiff, and “ David Crawford and Joseph Douglass surviving obligors in a bond, with James Mackey and William Beale, Esq.” were defendants ; on the trial of which the following facts appeared in evidence. 'Henry Doran, late of Mifflin county, died intestate, and as was alleged without any known kindred. Upon his death letters of administration were granted by the register of the county to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
On the trial of this cause in the court below, several bills of exception were taken by the counsel for the plaintiffs in error, to the opinion of the court, admitting evidence offered by the defendant in error and objected to by the plaintiffs in error, which have been assigned among other matters for error here. We however perceive no error in them. The court below was so obviously right in admitting the evidence, that it requires no reasoning in order to make it more palpable,
The other matters involved in the errors assigned, which seem…
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