Guyer v. Spotts
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Union county: Of May Term 1877, No. 231. Debt sur recognisance of bail in error by William Spotts, who survived David Henning, against Peter Guyer and Samuel S. Barber. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of this court.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Union county: Of May Term 1877, No. 231. Debt sur recognisance of bail in error by William Spotts, who survived David Henning, against Peter Guyer and Samuel S. Barber. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of this court. A special plea was filed by defendants, which alleged “that plaintiff had no cause of action, on the ground that Jacob Dundore, defendant in execution, was, on April 29th 1868, declared bankrupt and had since procured his discharge.” The following points were presented by defendants, both of which the court (Junkin, P. J.) refused:—…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
This suit was on a recognisance entered into by the plaintiffs in error, on the purchase, by one Bogar, of a writ of error to a judgment against him, in favor of the defendant. That judgment was recovered in a feigned issue, framed under the Interpleader Act, to try the right of Bogar to certain goods and chattels, levied on by the defendant, as the property of Dundore. On the trial of the issue Bogar failed to establish his right to the property, and judgment was entered against him for costs. When Bogar took a writ of error to that judgment, the plaintiffs in error entered into this…
2Cited by1 opinion
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