Hellings's Executors v. Directors of Poor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Common Pleas of Bucks county. This was an action of debt on a bond in the penal sum of $400,' brought by the Directors of the Poor and House of Employment of the county of Bucks, against Jeriel Hellings, and others, executors of the last will and testament of Jesse Hellings, deceased. The pleas were, payment and nil debet.
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Error to tbe Common Pleas of Bucks county. This was an action of debt on a bond in the penal sum of $400,' brought by the Directors of the Poor and House of Employment of the county of Bucks, against Jeriel Hellings, and others, executors of the last will and testament of Jesse Hellings, deceased. The pleas were, payment and nil debet. Plaintiff below, on the trial of the case, gave in evidence; 1. The bond, dated 28th of April, 1846, as follows, to wit: “ Know all men by these presents, that we, Jeriel Hellings and Jesse Hellings, of the county of Bucks, and State of Pennsylvania, áre held…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Roaers, J.
The sentence of the court is somewhat indefinite, in omitting to mention the person, viz. the mother, to whom the lying-in expenses, and the weekly allowance for the support of the child, were to be paid. This, however, is no_t a fatal defect, as we will intend it to be payable, either to the mother or to another, who, in *413case of her decease, may take her place. It was not regarded as error in Goddard v. Com’th, 6 Ser. & R. 284, where the sentence was in the same form, and adjudged to be good. Nor do we perceive any thing exceptionable in the…
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