Duchman v. Hagerty
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the district court of Lancaster county. The administrators of Jacob Duchman against Andrew Hagerty. The plaintiff’s claim was founded upon a book account, from 1817 to 1830, and was composed of charges for liquors, meals of victuals, lodging and horse-feed.
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ERROR to the district court of Lancaster county. The administrators of Jacob Duchman against Andrew Hagerty. The plaintiff’s claim was founded upon a book account, from 1817 to 1830, and was composed of charges for liquors, meals of victuals, lodging and horse-feed. To which the defendant pleaded as follows: “And the said Andrew Hagerty, by his attorney, comes and defends the wrong and injury when, &c. and says that the said plaintiffs ought not to have, or maintain their aforesaid action thereof against him, because, he says, that the demand of the plaintiffs by their declaration and bill of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
This was a suit to recover what were strictly tavern reckonings, charged from 1817 to 1830, though in some years there was no charge, and in others only one during the year. The principal amount was charged before 1820, and after 1828. There were, in the account, charges for sums of money, and assumptions for third persons, of which the book of Jacob Duchman was no evidence. The items were partly for liquors, partly for meals of victuals, and lodging. I mean that each separate charge in the books was partly for liquor, and partly for food,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Yundt v. RobertsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1819
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- Scattergood v. Waterman, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1839