Commonwealth v. Watmough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia. This was an action of debt upon the official bond of the sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia, brought in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the use of John C. Bergh and John P. Arcularius, copartners, trading under the firm of Bergh & Arcularius, against John G. Watmough, Esq., George W. South, and Isaac Heylin, The plaintiffs declared generally upon the sheriff’s bond; to which the…
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Error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia. This was an action of debt upon the official bond of the sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia, brought in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the use of John C. Bergh and John P. Arcularius, copartners, trading under the firm of Bergh & Arcularius, against John G. Watmough, Esq., George W. South, and Isaac Heylin, The plaintiffs declared generally upon the sheriff’s bond; to which the defendants pleaded peformance as respected the persons to whose use the suit was brought. The plaintiffs replied;…
1Opinion of the CourtKennedy, J.
The only question involved in the first three errors assigned, which seems to be worthy of notice, is the competency of Joshua T. Seal as a witness for the defendants. If the competency of the evidence, or any portion thereof, was intended to be excepted to, I think it was not made a question of, and pressed on the argument of the cause here; nor can I perceive any tenable ground upon which such an exception could have been sustained.
The objection to the competency of Joshua T. Seal, as a witness • for the defendants, is made upon two grounds; First, that of interest in the event of the suit;…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. VaughanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1811
3Cited by14 opinions
- Commonwealth v. CromptonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
- Finney's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868
- Dornin v. McCandless, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Alleghany County1892
- Commonwealth ex rel. Hood v. VandykeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1868
- Chase v. RalstonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1858
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