Morrison v. Moreland
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Perry county, in an action on the case brought by John Moreland, the defendant in error and plaintiff below, against James Morrison, the plaintiff in error and defendant below, in which there were a verdict and judgment in that court for the plaintiff.
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IN ERROR. Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Perry county, in an action on the case brought by John Moreland, the defendant in error and plaintiff below, against James Morrison, the plaintiff in error and defendant below, in which there were a verdict and judgment in that court for the plaintiff. The declaration complained that James Morrison, on the 14th day of May, 1818, at the said county of Perry, in consideration that the said John Moreland, at the request of the said James, by a certain writing under the said John Moreland’s hand, had assigned to the said James Morrison a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Huston, J.
To the decisions of the court, at the trial of this cause, several bills of exception were taken, and in this court errors were assigned up to the number of nine.
The first error here is to the declaration of the plaintiff John Moreland, the plaintiff below, had been the owner of a bond oa *62Craighead. This he assigned to James Morrison, the defendant below. The bond was for eight hundred dollars, conditioned to pay four hundred dollars. The parties would seem to have placed great confidence in each other, or to have been unacquainted with the…
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