Lyon v. Adams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Iñ Error. WRIT of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cum-her land county. J This suit was brought by the executors of William Lyon deceased, who, from the year 1786 to the year 1809, held the offices of prothonotary, register, recorder, and clerk of the Orphans’ Court of the county of Cumberland against Thomas Adams, Isaiah Graham, and William Ely, who at the commencement of the suit were commissioners of that county, to recover clivers sums of money, alleged to be due…
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Iñ Error. WRIT of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cum-her land county. J This suit was brought by the executors of William Lyon deceased, who, from the year 1786 to the year 1809, held the offices of prothonotary, register, recorder, and clerk of the Orphans’ Court of the county of Cumberland against Thomas Adams, Isaiah Graham, and William Ely, who at the commencement of the suit were commissioners of that county, to recover clivers sums of money, alleged to be due from the county to their testator. On the trial, six bills of exceptions were taken to the admission and rejection of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Tilghman C. J.
Six exceptions were taken to the opinion of the Court below, which shall be considered in the order in which they stand in the record.
1. [Here the Chief Justice read the first bill of exceptions.] On the 27th March, 1790, an act was passed, to provide for the safety of the records of the several counties in the Commonwealth, by which the commissioners of each county were authorised, with the approbation of the Justices of the *447Court of Quarter Sessions, and the grand jury, to erect buildings for the safe-keeping of the records and papers…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Irwin v. Commissioners of Northumberland CountySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1815
3Cited by2 opinions
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1819
- Vankirk v. ClarkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1827