Diamond v. Lawrence County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Laivrence county. This was an action of debt, brought in the Common Pleas of Lawrence county to February Term 1860, by Daniel Diamond against the County of Lawrence, to which an appearance was entered by the defendant, and the issuing and service of the writ dispensed with.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Laivrence county. This was an action of debt, brought in the Common Pleas of Lawrence county to February Term 1860, by Daniel Diamond against the County of Lawrence, to which an appearance was entered by the defendant, and the issuing and service of the writ dispensed with. To a declaration, and a copy of plaintiff’s claim duly filed, the plea of nil debet and payment with leave, &c., was entered; and, on the 28th of January 1860, an agreement of the parties, as a case stated, was filed. The case, as made up in the court below, recited at length the act to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, J.
This case is here as a case stated. The plaintiff claims a judgment for the amount of a coupon accompanying bond No. 56, issued by the county to the North-Western Railroad Company, in part payment of the county’s subscription to the stock of said company; which bond and coupon the company transferred to a contractor for work done on their road, and by several successive transfers the said bond and coupon came into the hands of the plaintiff for a valuable consideration.
It is made a part of the case, that on the 5th of June 1857, before the…
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