Strohecker v. Grant
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This cause, which was an action of covenant brought by John Strohecker, who survived John Garver, against George, Deborah, and William Grant, executors of Thomas Grant, deceased, was tried before Rogers, J., at a circuit court for Northumberland county on the 18th of April, 1827, when the jury under the direction of the judge gave a verdict for the plaintiff.
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This cause, which was an action of covenant brought by John Strohecker, who survived John Garver, against George, Deborah, and William Grant, executors of Thomas Grant, deceased, was tried before Rogers, J., at a circuit court for Northumberland county on the 18th of April, 1827, when the jury under the direction of the judge gave a verdict for the plaintiff. A motion was made on behalf of the defendants for a new trial, which having been overruled, an appeal was entered to the Supreme Court in Bank. The cause had been removed by certiorari from the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J.
This is an appeal from the decree of 'Judge Rogers, who decided in favour of the plaintiff generally; merely for *241the purpose of having the whole case brought before this court and disposed of.
The topics here- discussed have been principally on the form of the declaration, which the defendants contend is so substantially vitious that no verdict could cure it, and on the misjoinder; uniting in the same action demands in different rights.
It is the duty of judges to preserve the forms of actions, and parties are not to be permitted to convert…
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