Crotzer v. Russell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas .of Cumberland county. Debt on bond. The prsecipe and writ were in the name of James M. Russell, executor of John Lyon, who was surviving obligee in a bond with William Alexander, deceased, as plaintiff, against Christian Crotzer and Christian Ruhl, defendants.
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IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas .of Cumberland county. Debt on bond. The prsecipe and writ were in the name of James M. Russell, executor of John Lyon, who was surviving obligee in a bond with William Alexander, deceased, as plaintiff, against Christian Crotzer and Christian Ruhl, defendants. The plaintiff afterwards filed a statement describing the bond as having been given by the defendants to John Lyon and William Alexander, executors of Samuel Lyon, deceased, and the action was after-wards so entitled on the docket at the plaintiff’s instance. The defendants pleaded payment…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Txluhman, C. J.
This action was brought, in the name of James M. Russell, executor of John Lyon, who was surviving obligee in a bond with William Alexander, deceased. The plaintiff did not file a declaration, but a statement under an act of assembly, in which the bond is described as having been given by the defendants to John Lyon and William Alexander, executors of Samuel Lyon, deceased. On the trial of the cause, the plaintiff produced the hond, which agrees exactly with the statement, but the defendants objected to it, because it varied from the…
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