Sadler v. Slobaugh
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county. Henry Slobaugh, the plaintiff in the Court below, brought an action of debt on a single bill for 100 dollars, against Isaac Sadler. The single bill was given for a horse, sold by the plaintiff to the defendant, and the debt, including interest, would have amounted to more than 100 dollars, but the ; defendant gave in evidence the plaintiff’s warranty of the horse, and a breach of the warranty.
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• In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county. Henry Slobaugh, the plaintiff in the Court below, brought an action of debt on a single bill for 100 dollars, against Isaac Sadler. The single bill was given for a horse, sold by the plaintiff to the defendant, and the debt, including interest, would have amounted to more than 100 dollars, but the ; defendant gave in evidence the plaintiff’s warranty of the horse, and a breach of the warranty. In consequence of which the jury struck off part of the plaintiff’s debt, and gave him a verdict for 85 dollars, 31 cents, damages, and 6…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
• (After stating the case.) By the 1st section of the act of 20th March, 1810, (5 Sm. L. 161.) justices of the peace have jurisdiction of all causes of action arising on contract, (with certain exceptions,) where the sum demanded is not above 100 dollars. And by the 26th section of the same act, any person who shall bring suit in Court, for a debt or demand made cognisable by the justices, by the 1st section, is debarred from costs, unless before the issuing of the original writ, he files in the office of the prothonotary, his oath or affirmation, that he verily believes, “ the…
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