Ankrim v. Woodward
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County. In the court below the action was assumpsit, brought against the plaintiff in error, Josiah Ankrim, by John Woodward, John Way and George Gregg, trustees under a domestic attachment issued at the suit of Dennis M‘Credy and Samuel Parker, trading under the firm of M‘Credy Parker, against Adam Jenner Ankrim, the plaintiffs below and defendants in error.
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Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County. In the court below the action was assumpsit, brought against the plaintiff in error, Josiah Ankrim, by John Woodward, John Way and George Gregg, trustees under a domestic attachment issued at the suit of Dennis M‘Credy and Samuel Parker, trading under the firm of M‘Credy Parker, against Adam Jenner Ankrim, the plaintiffs below and defendants in error. The defendant below pleaded non assumpsit, and two special pleas of set off, averring that Adam Jenner Ankrim, prior to the issuing of the domestic attachment, and the trustees, prior…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
Three errors have been assigned in this case. They, however, embrace but two. questions. First, Was the court below right in rejecting the evidence offered by the plaintiff in error who was the defendant below ? And second, Did the court charge the jury correctly on the claim of the plaintiff in error to be allowed to defalcate the debt owing to him by his son Adam Jenner Ankrim, from the claim of the defendants in error, who sued as trustees appointed under a proceeding by writ of domestic attachment against the son, according to our acts…
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