Snyder v. May & Klose
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Union county. This was an action of assumpsit on book account, brought in February 1850, by May & Klose, as partners, v. Snyder, to recover an alleged balance on book account. The pleas were non assumpsit, payment, and set-off.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Union county. This was an action of assumpsit on book account, brought in February 1850, by May & Klose, as partners, v. Snyder, to recover an alleged balance on book account. The pleas were non assumpsit, payment, and set-off. The case was tried before Wilson, J. The plaintiffs’ books showed an account against the defendant of $831.32, and his credits $372.58. The defendant gave evidence of various off-sets, and claimed a year’s rent of certain real estate, which had been leased by the plaintiffs from George Gun-drum. The lease by Gundrum to" May & Klose was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court, filed was delivered by
Lewis, J.
This was an action brought in the Court below by May & Klose against Snyder, to recover an alleged balance due to the plaintiffs below on book account. Mr. Snyder claimed to set off the sum of $600 alleged to be due by May & Klose tq George Gundrum, for one year’s rent of property leased to them by Gundrum, and which the latter had assigned to Snyder. The plaintiffs below offered Gundrum himself as a witness to prove that, at the time the lease was written, “ it was given in and understood and agreed” by the parties that the rent was…
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