Hoffman v. Kissinger
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Berks county. John Kissinger .against Jacob Hoffman. This was an action of assumpsit, founded upon a promissory note of Jacob Hoffman to John Kissinger, for $400, dated 17th of August 1839, at ninety days. There were several bills of exception to evidence taken upon the trial, but they gave rise to no principle which was. peculiar to this case, except one which sufficiently appears in the opinion of the court. The cause was argued by
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The first error assigned is an exception to the opinion of the court, rejecting the affirmative answer of Charles E. Boyer, a witness on behalf of the plaintiff in error, who was the defendant below, to the fourth interrogatory annexed to the commission awarded by the court, for the purpose of taking his testimony, to Henry Brown, Esq., of the state of Illinois. The interrogatory is in the following words: “ Was John Kissinger (the plaintiff below) in the habit of endorsing notes for your father (Jacob K. Boyer) at the banks in Reading, or…
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