Fall Creek Coal & Iron Company v. Smith
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford county: No. 292, to January Term 1872. This was an action of trespass, issued August 29th 1865, by the Fall Creek Coal and Iron Company against J. Monroe Smith, who was sheriff of Bradford county. The case was referred on the 27th of September 1870, to W. H. Jessup, Esq., under the Acts of April 6th 1869 (Pa.mph. L. 725), and January 20th 1870 (Pamph.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford county: No. 292, to January Term 1872. This was an action of trespass, issued August 29th 1865, by the Fall Creek Coal and Iron Company against J. Monroe Smith, who was sheriff of Bradford county. The case was referred on the 27th of September 1870, to W. H. Jessup, Esq., under the Acts of April 6th 1869 (Pa.mph. L. 725), and January 20th 1870 (Pamph. L. 85). Those of the facts necessary to an understanding of the case, •which were found by the referee were: that the plaintiffs employed G. M. Hall to furnish materials and build five canal-boats…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, C. J.
This case comes before this court, from the findings and judgment of a referee, under the Act of Assembly passed April 6th 1869, entitled “ An act authorizing the reference of civil actions in the county of Bradford.” While it is nominally entitled a Writ of error to the Common Pleas of Bradford county, it is only so, for the court had in fact nothing to do Avitli it, only so far as the appointment of the referee was concerned. The assignments of error are therefore directly upon his adjudications. This is something of a novelty in our…
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