Davis v. Meade
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the defendants in error, and plaintiffs below.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
TilghmAjSY'C. .T.
This action was brought in the name of David Meade and others, (fifteen in all,) trustees of the Meadville seminary of learning, against John Davis, to recover the amount of a subscription made by the said iJavis, of the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, for the use of the said seminary. On the trial of the cause, the plaintiffs offered in evidence, the original subscription book, in which was the name of the defendant, for one hundred and fifty dollars. To this evidence the counsel for the defendant objected, and on its being…
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