Long v. Laufman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of-Common Pleas of Franklin county.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
— Several objections were made in the Court of Common Pleas, to the recovery of the plaintiffs, and the answers of the court to the points submitted by the defendants’ counsel, have been assigned for error. The objections were in substance, that the suit should have been brought in the name of the obligees,' or by the commissioners of Franklin county, in their corporate capacity: That the bond was not taken by the authority of an act of assembly, and is, therefore, void: That the viewers reported a wooden bridge, in which the grand jury and…
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