Houseman v. Girard Mutual Building & Loan Ass'n
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: Of January Term 1875, No. 109. This was an action on the case, brought September 29th 1878, by the Girard Mutual Building and Loan Association against John A. Houseman.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: Of January Term 1875, No. 109. This was an action on the case, brought September 29th 1878, by the Girard Mutual Building and Loan Association against John A. Houseman. The declaration set out, in one count, that the plaintiffs, being about to lend to one Charles M. S. Leslie the sum of $2000, on a first mortgage, requested the defendant, then being recorder of deeds of Philadelphia, “to certify every unsatisfied mortgage of a messuage and lot, or piece of ground situate on the north side of St. Albans Place, 207 feet 6 inches west of Twenty-third…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sharswood
This was an action instituted in the court below by the defendants in error to recover from the plaintiff in error, who was formerl^recorder of deeds for the county of Philadelphia, damages for a false certificate of search issued by him, or by his authority. That such a certificate was issued false in fact ; that it was ordered and paid for by the defendants, and that in consequence they suffered damages, were points not in dispute. That the recorder is primá, facie liable to respond in damages for such false search, has been settled in McCaraher v. Commonwealth, 5 W. & S. 21, and is no…
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