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Waln v. Beaver

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 31, 1894No. Appeal, No. 280PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal, No. 280, Jan. T., 1894, by defendants, James A. Beaver and J. W. Gephart, trading as Beaver & Gephart, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Pbila. Co., March T., 1890, No. 216, on verdict for plaintiffs, S. Morris Wain and Howard S. Conrow, administrators d. b. n. c. t. a. of Thornton Conrow, deceased. Trespass to recover damages from attorney at law for alleged neglect of professional duty.

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Appeal, No. 280, Jan. T., 1894, by defendants, James A. Beaver and J. W. Gephart, trading as Beaver & Gephart, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Pbila. Co., March T., 1890, No. 216, on verdict for plaintiffs, S. Morris Wain and Howard S. Conrow, administrators d. b. n. c. t. a. of Thornton Conrow, deceased. Trespass to recover damages from attorney at law for alleged neglect of professional duty. Before Finletter, P. J. The facts and the evidence, showing the matters in dispute before the jury, are sufficiently reviewed in the charge of the court below to the jury and in the opinion of the…

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

These motions rest on the absence of the official certificate of the stenographer to the copy of his notes filed and sent up with the record, and to the absence of any note or allowance of a general objection to the judge’s charge, also sent up with the record. It is true that the record is duly certified by two of the judges of the court below, in their return to the writ of certiorari, and that the record so certified contains the stenographer’s notes, or what purports to be such.

If counsel for appellee did not object because of the want of the stenographer’s certificate, it is…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Martin v. JacksonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1856
  2. Fluck v. ReplogleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1850
  3. Cox v. LivingstonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1841
  4. Knaub v. EsseckSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1834
  5. M'Williams v. HopkinsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1834

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  1. Commonwealth v. KocherBerks County Court of Quarter Sessions · 1923

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