Lowrie v. Verner
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the district court of Alleghany county. This was an action of debt brought by John Verner, the defendant in error, to recover from Matthew B. Lowrie, Esq., an alderman in the city of Pittsburgh, the penalty of 50 pounds for marrying a son of Verner, who was a minor, under the age of twenty-one years» ‘without a license or the consent of his parents.
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ERROR to the district court of Alleghany county. This was an action of debt brought by John Verner, the defendant in error, to recover from Matthew B. Lowrie, Esq., an alderman in the city of Pittsburgh, the penalty of 50 pounds for marrying a son of Verner, who was a minor, under the age of twenty-one years» ‘without a license or the consent of his parents. The plaintiff below offered in evidence a notice apprizing the defendant. that suit would be brought against him in the common pleas. The defendant’s counsel objected to the notice as insufficient, because the suit, instead of being…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
In the argument of this case, two errors have been relied on by the plaintiff in error. The first is, that the notice to the magistrate of the plaintiff’s intention to institute a suit was defective, because it informed him that the action would be brought in the court of common pleas of Alleghany county, whereas it was after-wards brought in the district court of Alleghany county. The great object of notice is to apprize the magistrate who it is that complains, and what the nature of the complaint is, in order that he may inform himself of…
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