Summers v. M'Kim
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county. In that court William M,Kim and Martin Armstrong plaintiffs below and defendants in error, brought this action of debt on a book account not exceeding three hundred dollars, against the plaintiff in error Peter Summers, and filed a statement of their demand for work done in the-year 1816: namely, the carpenter work of a house, four hundred and sixty dollars', repairing a house, forty dollars, boring…
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IN ERROR. Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county. In that court William M,Kim and Martin Armstrong plaintiffs below and defendants in error, brought this action of debt on a book account not exceeding three hundred dollars, against the plaintiff in error Peter Summers, and filed a statement of their demand for work done in the-year 1816: namely, the carpenter work of a house, four hundred and sixty dollars', repairing a house, forty dollars, boring and laying pipes, thirty dollars: and claiming as due to them, after giving the defendant a credit of two hundred and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tilghman, C. J.
This is an action brought by M‘Kim and Armstrong against Peter Summers for carpenters’ work done by the plaintiffs for the defendant, in a house in the county of Lancaster. Several bills of exception were taken by the defendant’s counsel, to evidence offered by the plaintiffs, on the trial in the Court of Common Pleas, and on these bills the cause is now before us.
The first exception was to a paper offered by the plaintiffs, containing an account of the particulars of their work, with the measurement of the same, and the price of each…
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