Reese v. Addams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This suit was originally brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, by Lewis Reese against John Addams, Esq., the prothonotary of the said county, for money had and received by the defendant for the use of the plaintiff. It was removed by certiorari to the Circuit Court, where it was tried on the 25th of Jlpril, 1827, before Judge Duncan. Á verdict was given under the direction of the judge, in favour of the plaintiff, for two thousand dollars.
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This suit was originally brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, by Lewis Reese against John Addams, Esq., the prothonotary of the said county, for money had and received by the defendant for the use of the plaintiff. It was removed by certiorari to the Circuit Court, where it was tried on the 25th of Jlpril, 1827, before Judge Duncan. Á verdict was given under the direction of the judge, in favour of the plaintiff, for two thousand dollars. A motion for a new trial having been overruled, an appeal was taken to this court. On the 12th of December, 1810, James Lewis made his last…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, J.
It has been properly admitted by the counsel for the plaintiff that the legacies given by James Lewis, to his two daughters, are *42charges upon the land devised to James and Curtis, and it is also conceded that they still remain unpaid. The question is, who is entitled to the money, the legatees, who have the lien on the land, or Lewis Reese, the assignee of James Lewis, and whom I shall consider, for the purposes of this argument, as standing precisely in the same situation as his assignee, James Lewis. In order, correctly to determine this matter, it is necessary to consider what is the…
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