Griffith v. Sitgreaves
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton county: Of January Term 1879. No. 232. Assumpsit by Matthew H. Griffith, James Roberts and J. Milton Butler, partners, trading as Griffith, Roberts & Butler, against Theodore R. Sitgreaves, to recover $2903.68, the amount of seven promissory notes, of which defendant was the accommodation endorser for Robert C. Pyle, the maker. The defendant pleaded non-assumpsit.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton county: Of January Term 1879. No. 232. Assumpsit by Matthew H. Griffith, James Roberts and J. Milton Butler, partners, trading as Griffith, Roberts & Butler, against Theodore R. Sitgreaves, to recover $2903.68, the amount of seven promissory notes, of which defendant was the accommodation endorser for Robert C. Pyle, the maker. The defendant pleaded non-assumpsit. A jury trial was dispensed with, and the case was submitted to the court, Meyers, P. J., under the provisions of the Reference Law of April 22d 1874. The court, inter alia, found the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
In Jamison v. Collins, 2 Norris 359, and in one or two subsequent cases not yet reported, it was held that in a writ of error under the Reference Law of April 22d 1874, Purd. Dig. 1939, Pamph. L. 109, this court can hear and determine only questions of law arising upon bills of exceptions to the rulings of the judge relating to the evidence or the law of the case. It will not go behind his findings of fact, *165except wnere in a common-law trial before a jury the assignments of error are such as can be heard and determined before this court.
In the case in hand, a trial by jury was dispensed with…
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