Alexander v. Weidner
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clarion county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 86. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by M. A. K. Weidner against William T. Alexander, to recover one-half the amount of a note made by Brown and Galey to the order of Alexander. • On the trial before Jenks, P. J., the defendant submitted two points, both of which the court affirmed, but the first with a-qualification.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clarion county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 86. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by M. A. K. Weidner against William T. Alexander, to recover one-half the amount of a note made by Brown and Galey to the order of Alexander. • On the trial before Jenks, P. J., the defendant submitted two points, both of which the court affirmed, but the first with a-qualification. To these answers of the court the plaintiff excepted, but the defendant did not. The verdict was for the plaintiff, and judgment was entered thereon. The defendant took this…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sharswood
The Act of Assembly of February 24th 1806, Pamph. L. 334, entitled “ An act to alter the judiciary system of this Commonwealth,” with another which followed close upon its heels, the Act of March 21st 1806, Pamph. L. 558, entitled “ An act to regulate arbitrations and proceedings in courts of justice,” were intended by that legislature to inaugurate a new administration of justice, in which the profession of the law might be entirely dispensed with, and every man be his own lawyer and conduct his own suits. It need not be said that it entirely failed to secure its main object, and that the…
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