Gordon v. M'Carty
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Bucks. This was an action of debt, brought by Catharine Gordon, late Kohl, one of the daughters of George Kohl, deceased, against John M'Carty, one of the sureties in a bond given in the Orphans’ Court of Bucks County, on the 29th of March, 1810, by Jacob and George Kohl, sons of the deceased, to whom the real estate of their father was adjudged by the Court, for the distributive share of the plaintiff in the valuation of…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Bucks. This was an action of debt, brought by Catharine Gordon, late Kohl, one of the daughters of George Kohl, deceased, against John M'Carty, one of the sureties in a bond given in the Orphans’ Court of Bucks County, on the 29th of March, 1810, by Jacob and George Kohl, sons of the deceased, to whom the real estate of their father was adjudged by the Court, for the distributive share of the plaintiff in the valuation of her father’s real estate. The action was brought to recover that portion which became due at the decease of the widow of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The plaintiff in error was the defendant below. The action was debt, founded upon a bond, which he joined in executing as one of the sureties of Jaeob and George Kohl, who were the principals in it. The defence set up on the trial of the cause was, that the plaintiff below, on the 1st day of September, 1824, executed a release in writing under her hand and seal, to Jacob Kohl, one of the principals in the bond;.whereby she acknowledged that she had received of him her full distributive share out of the real estate of her late father, for,…
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- M'Carty v. GordonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1839
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