O'Reilly v. Bard
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of jBerks county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 286. This was an action of assumpsit by Adam Bard, Henry-Brown, and the executors of Peter Miller, deceased, against Patrick O’Reilly, surviving partner of H. F. Felix & Co., George Whitaker, Joshua Keely and Patrick O’Reilly.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of jBerks county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 286. This was an action of assumpsit by Adam Bard, Henry-Brown, and the executors of Peter Miller, deceased, against Patrick O’Reilly, surviving partner of H. F. Felix & Co., George Whitaker, Joshua Keely and Patrick O’Reilly. The said Patrick O’Reilly died after verdict and before judgment, and by writ of scire facias Catharine C. O’Reilly et al., his executors, were substituted of record in his place. The narr. contained, besides the common counts, a special count averring that in certain suits brought against…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Clark.delivered -the opinion of the court, October 6, 1884.
The Reading Industrial Manufacturing Company was incorporated November 10, 1857, under the provisions of the Act of April 7, 1849, entitled “ An Act to encourage manufacturing,” &c., Pamph. Law’s, 563, and its several supplements; its operations were carried o.n for about three years;.the company *573then became insolvent, and suits were instituted for the recovery of its indebtedness. One of these suits was brought by Moses K. Graeff, in which were joined as defendants several of the stockholders, viz: Peter Miller, Adam…
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