Moore v. Philadelphia Bank

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Tilghman C. J.

This is an action against the Philadelphia Bank, for the sum of 500 offered by the directors, as a reward to the person who should discover and secure the perpetrators of a robbery, committed in the month of October in the year 1816. The defendants may be considered in the light of stake-holders, who are willing to pay the money in their hands, to the person entitled to the reward. The plaintiff claims it, and it is also claimed by a certain William Elliott, who gave notice to the bank not to pay it to the tiff. So that the persons really…