Crawford v. Pyle
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 161, Jan. T., 1898, by defendants, from judgment, of C. P. Chester Co., Aug. T., 1896, No. Ill, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit on a guaranty. Before Butler, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 161, Jan. T., 1898, by defendants, from judgment, of C. P. Chester Co., Aug. T., 1896, No. Ill, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit on a guaranty. Before Butler, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court charged in part as follows: The plaintiff brings this suit in an endeavor to recover from the defendants the sum of $1,600, with interest from May 1, 1889, alleging that that amount is due upon a security which she bought of the defendants in the fall of 1889, which, she alleges, they guaranteed, which she appears to have placed in their hands for…
1Opinion of the Court
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Mr. Justice Dean,
The defendants, in the year 1889, carried on in West Chester the business of selling Kansas bonds and mortgages to investors. The plaintiff, Mrs. Crawford, lived at Atglen, a short distance from West Chester j she was a woman of some means, which fact was known to defendants, although they had no personal acquaintance with her ? the family of their chief clerk, Sumner Whitson, also resided in Atglen, and plaintiff had an acquaintance with him. In the latter part of October, 1889, defendants sent Whitson, their clerk, to Mrs. Crawford, to solicit- her to purchase…
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