Stehle v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
October Term, 1886, No. 194, W. D., before Gordon, Paxson, Tbunkey, Sterrett, and Green, JJ. Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County to review a judgment for plaintiff for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense in an action of sci. fa. on a license bond.
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October Term, 1886, No. 194, W. D., before Gordon, Paxson, Tbunkey, Sterrett, and Green, JJ. Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County to review a judgment for plaintiff for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense in an action of sci. fa. on a license bond. April 22, 1885, Donat Stehle took out a license to keep an eating-house in the city of Pittsburgh for one year from May 1, 1885, and gave a bond in the sum of $2,000 with John Kessler and Charles Busse as sureties. In June, 1885, informations were filed against Stehle charging him with selling liquors on Sunday. At the…
1Per curiam
Judgment for the want of a sufficient affidavit of defense was properly ordered by the court below. Having examined all the points raised on behalf of the plaintiffs in error, we find nothing in either of them that can be sustained.
The averment that Stehle had satisfied the fines by submitting to an imprisonment cannot be entertained as a good reason for the discharge of his sureties; see Brown v. Com. the opinion in which case was filed on the 18th ultimo, 114 Pa. 335, 5 Cent. Rep. 240, 6 Atl. 152
Judgment affirmed.
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