Taylor v. Preston
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county: Of October and November Term 1875, No. 146. This was an action of assumpsit, brought November 14th 1873, by John Preston, for the use of Simon Young, now for the use of W. D. McCandless, against H. L. Taylor, John Satterfield, J. J. Yandergrift and George Y. Forman, trading as H. L. Taylor & Co. The declaration was that on the 19th of February 1873, Simon Young, by articles of agreement, under seal, agreed to sell to John…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county: Of October and November Term 1875, No. 146. This was an action of assumpsit, brought November 14th 1873, by John Preston, for the use of Simon Young, now for the use of W. D. McCandless, against H. L. Taylor, John Satterfield, J. J. Yandergrift and George Y. Forman, trading as H. L. Taylor & Co. The declaration was that on the 19th of February 1873, Simon Young, by articles of agreement, under seal, agreed to sell to John Preston a tract of land, the deed to be made when the purchase-money should be paid. In consideration, Preston was to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
In the course of the trial, three judgments against Preston, the plaintiff below, entered in January and February 1875, were offered in evidence on the part of the defendants. The rejection of this offer is made the ground of the first error assigned in this record. Preston had purchased from Simon Young, by articles of agreement executed on the 19th of February 1873, one hundred and twenty acres of land in Concord township, in the county of Butler, for $21,000, and having paid $5200, had assigned the articles to the defendants on the 19th of March 1873, two instalments of the purchase-money…
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