Friedman v. Maltinsky
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 90, Oct. T., 1917, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. Allegheny Co., July T., 1915, No. 2178, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Henry Friedman, Jacob Roth, Max Friedman and Esther Firestone, Samuel Firestone and A. M. Simon, Executors of Estate of Henry Firestone, Deceased, v. Samuel Maltinsky. Assumpsit for contribution by joint endorsers of promissory notes. Before Ford, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts.
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Appeal, No. 90, Oct. T., 1917, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. Allegheny Co., July T., 1915, No. 2178, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Henry Friedman, Jacob Roth, Max Friedman and Esther Firestone, Samuel Firestone and A. M. Simon, Executors of Estate of Henry Firestone, Deceased, v. Samuel Maltinsky. Assumpsit for contribution by joint endorsers of promissory notes. Before Ford, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for plaintiff for $11,115.19 and judgment thereon. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were answers to points and rulings on evidence.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
This is an action of assumpsit for contribution between joint endorsers of promissory notes. The parties, plaintiffs and defendant, were stockholders in the McKeesport Natatorium and Medical Institute. As early as 1905 the corporation was a borrower of money from the Peoples Bank of McKeesport, for which it gave notes with certain of its officers and stockholders as accommodation endorsers. For their protection the corporation in December of that year gave them a second mortgage of fifty-one thousand dollars on its McKeesport property. In January, 1908, such…
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