Stoy v. Yost
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
m ERROR. The writ of error, in this ease, was to the Mayor’s Court of the city of Lancaster. John Yost, the plaintiff below, and defendant in error, it appears, took out a summons before a justice of the peace, against the plaintiff in error, Catherine Stoy, administratrix of Gustavus Stoy, deceased, “in a plea of damages not exceeding one hundred dollars, arising from a balance of book debt not exceeding one hundred dollars,” as appeared by the transcript from the justice’s…
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m ERROR. The writ of error, in this ease, was to the Mayor’s Court of the city of Lancaster. John Yost, the plaintiff below, and defendant in error, it appears, took out a summons before a justice of the peace, against the plaintiff in error, Catherine Stoy, administratrix of Gustavus Stoy, deceased, “in a plea of damages not exceeding one hundred dollars, arising from a balance of book debt not exceeding one hundred dollars,” as appeared by the transcript from the justice’s docket in which this was stated. The parties agreed to refer the cause”, and on the 17th of October, 1820, the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
TilghmaN, C. J.
This action was Originally brought before a justice of the peace, by John Yost, the plaintiff in error. The cause of action stated by the plaintiff, as it appears on the docket of the justice, was “ a balance, of a booh debt, not exceeding one hundred dollars.” The cause was submitted to arbitrators, who awarded, “ that the plaintiff has no cause of action, and pay the costs of suit.” The plaintiff appealed to the Mayor’s Court of the city of Lancaster, in which the cause was tried; and he there eh-*387tained a verdict and judgment for one…
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