Wise v. Wills
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writ of error to the Court of Comm.on Pleas of Cumberland county. The plaintiffs in error were plaintiffs below, in assumpsit for money lent and advanced, money paid, laid out, and expended, and money had and received. Pleas, non assumpsit and payment, with leave to give the special matters in evidence.
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Writ of error to the Court of Comm.on Pleas of Cumberland county. The plaintiffs in error were plaintiffs below, in assumpsit for money lent and advanced, money paid, laid out, and expended, and money had and received. Pleas, non assumpsit and payment, with leave to give the special matters in evidence. The cause of action appeared^ by the following receipt, signed by the defendant, and given in evidence by the plaintiffs on the trial:— “Received, November % 7th, 1814, of John Greigor, by the hand of Michael Haber, three hundred dollars, on sundry executions which were put into the hands of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered'by
Huston, J.
— No evidence was-sent up except the copy of the receipt, which it is not necessary to copy.' The ■'only statement of the evidence was contained in the charge of the judge of the Court of Common Pleas. This is a suit for money had and received. The évidence shows, that the money claimed by th.e-plaintiffs, was received by the defendant in his official character, and by virtue of his office of a justice of the peace, being the amount of debt, interest, and costs, in a number of suits brought before him by different plaintiffs against various…
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