Weidler v. Farmers Bank
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Samuel Weidler, the plaintiff in error, brought a suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster count]', against the defendants in error, in which he declared for money had and received by them to his use. It appeared from the record, and the several bills of exceptions accompanying it, that the Farmers Bank of Lancaster had, on the 10th of August, 1815, obtained a judgment on an award of arbitrators, against one John Fulweiler, for 361 dollars 43 cents.
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IN ERROR. Samuel Weidler, the plaintiff in error, brought a suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster count]', against the defendants in error, in which he declared for money had and received by them to his use. It appeared from the record, and the several bills of exceptions accompanying it, that the Farmers Bank of Lancaster had, on the 10th of August, 1815, obtained a judgment on an award of arbitrators, against one John Fulweiler, for 361 dollars 43 cents. A fieri facias issued to November term, 1815, which was levied upon a house and lot of ground in Marietta,which were subsequently…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, J.
This action could be sustained only on proof of actual fraud in the defendants. . The contract between the judgment creditor and a purchaser at sheriff’s sale, is not like that .which arises, where, from the subject matter and nature of the agreement, it must be conceded that the parties proceed on a supposition that the facts are in a particular way, and in which the common mistake of both, is good ground to rescind the bargain ; but the purcháse is essentially based on a state of things resting in contingency. The par.ties do not treat for…
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