Stiles v. Bradford
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of error to the District Court for the City and county of Philadelphia, in which bills of exceptions to the opinion of the court on points of evidence, and to the charge of the court, were returned with the record. The case was a feigned issue, directed by that court to try the right of Thomas Bradford to certain moneys arising from a sheriff’s sale of real estate, by virtue of a levari facias.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Sergeant J.
[Who after stating the principal facts of the case, proceeded as follows.] — 1. On the trial of this cause in the court below, the defendants Harbert and Caldwell offered in evidence a deposition of Thomas T. Stiles, which had been taken on behalf of the plaintiff and read by him on the argument of the rule to shew cause why the feigned issue should not be directed, to try the plaintiff’s right to the money. But it was rejected, because Thomas T. Stiles was then in court, and could be called by the defendants as a witness. It is now…
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