Worrall's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Common Pleas of Philadelphia. This was an appeal by William P. Worrall, from the decree of the court distributing the proceeds of the sheriff’s sale of the personal property of Washington M. Worrall.
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Certiorari to the Common Pleas of Philadelphia. This was an appeal by William P. Worrall, from the decree of the court distributing the proceeds of the sheriff’s sale of the personal property of Washington M. Worrall. The following are the material facts of the case:— Washington M. Worrall, as principal, and William P. Worrall, as surety, became bound to William C. Richardson and James O. Pease, by bond dated the 1st day of March 1859, in the sum of $4903, conditioned for the payment of $2451.52. They also became bound in the same way to the same parties, in a bond dated the 15th day of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Woodward, J.
W. P. Worrall having bound himself as surety for the debt of W. M. Worrall to Richardson & Pease, took a judgment against his principal, Wm. M. Worrall, for an amount of actual indebtedness, and for his indemnity against this and other liabilities, which he had assumed for the benefit of W. M. Worrall. On this judgment W. P. Worrall issued a ft. fa. August 3d 1859, and levied it on the goods of W. M. Worrall.
The instrument of suretyship given by W. P. Worrall to Richardson & Pease was a joint judgment against himself and W. M. Worrall, and…
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