Ludwick v. Huntzinger
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia. This was an action of debt brought by Samuel Huntzinger against George Ludwick on a bond given by the defendant to the plaintiff dated 1st July 1830, conditioned for the payment of $1143.75 on the 1st of April 1832, with 3 per cent, interest from date; which bond, it was admitted, was given in part consideration of the sale of a tract of land.
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ERROR to the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia. This was an action of debt brought by Samuel Huntzinger against George Ludwick on a bond given by the defendant to the plaintiff dated 1st July 1830, conditioned for the payment of $1143.75 on the 1st of April 1832, with 3 per cent, interest from date; which bond, it was admitted, was given in part consideration of the sale of a tract of land. The defendant read the following notice of special matter: “ The defendant will offer on the trial of the above cause the full evidence, to prove the following special matter: That the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
This action was brought on a bond given by the plaintiff in error, who was the defendant in the court below, to the defendants in error, who were the plaintiffs there, to secure the payment of part of the purchase money of a tract of land sold and conveyed by the latter to the former. The defence set up was, that the plaintiffs below had no right or title whatever to the land so sold and conveyed. The only question raised in the case is, whether the evidence offered by the defendant in the court below, and rejected by the court, tended to…
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