Ridgely v. Dobson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THIS was an action of assumpsit, brought by Judah Dobson, ' in the Common Pleas of Bucks county, to December term 1838, against Reynell Coates, Thomas Wood, G. W. Ridgely, M. O. Callaghan, Charles Roberts, J. M. Hibbs, James R. Scott, Rowland Stephenson, John Maulson, Robert Pitman, Alve E. Loring, Joseph F. Warner, C. H. Bessonett and Wilmot Martin, who survived Thomas G. Kennedy, formerly associated under the name of Bristol Lyceum, to recover the price of certain books…
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THIS was an action of assumpsit, brought by Judah Dobson, ' in the Common Pleas of Bucks county, to December term 1838, against Reynell Coates, Thomas Wood, G. W. Ridgely, M. O. Callaghan, Charles Roberts, J. M. Hibbs, James R. Scott, Rowland Stephenson, John Maulson, Robert Pitman, Alve E. Loring, Joseph F. Warner, C. H. Bessonett and Wilmot Martin, who survived Thomas G. Kennedy, formerly associated under the name of Bristol Lyceum, to recover the price of certain books alleged to have been sold and delivered to the Bristol Lyceum. The sheriff made return to the writ, that he had “ summoned…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
In this case it appeared that about 1832 several gentlemen proposed to establish a reading-room at Bristol. They drew up a plan of their intended association, to which they gavfe the name of their constitution. Its preamble states : “We, whose names are hereto subscribed, are convinced that great benefit would result to the inhabitants- of the borough of Bristol and its vicinity, from >the institution of -a society for the cultivation of a literary taste, by placing the materials of knowledge more immediately within the -reach of every…
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