Philadelphia Bank v. Officer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. In the Court of Common Pleas of Washington county, from which the record of this case was removed by writ of error, an amicable issue was formed, in which the plaintiffs in error were plaintiffs, and the defendants in error, defendants, the object of which was to try, whether or not Thomas Officer, the defendants’ testator, and late sheriff of Washington county, had paid over two sums of money which he had received from Henry Wise, on an execution issued by the…
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IN ERROR. In the Court of Common Pleas of Washington county, from which the record of this case was removed by writ of error, an amicable issue was formed, in which the plaintiffs in error were plaintiffs, and the defendants in error, defendants, the object of which was to try, whether or not Thomas Officer, the defendants’ testator, and late sheriff of Washington county, had paid over two sums of money which he had received from Henry Wise, on an execution issued by the present plaintiffs against him, viz. one hundred and sixty one dollars on the 2d of September, 1816, and one hundred and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
DüNCAn, J.
This was an amicable issue, to try whether two sums of money, one, of one hundred and sixty-one dollars, paid the testator, the sheriff of Washington county, on the 2d hf September, 1816, and the other of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, on the 22d of October, 1816, on an execution of the bank of Philadelphia against Henry Wise, had been paid over to the bank by the sheriff. The defendants gave evidence of the payment over of the money to Mr. Neal, the cashier of the branch bank at Washington. Mr. Neal, on the other hand, having been…
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