Commonwealth v. Delamater
Crawford County Court of Quarter Sessions
Nos. 50-58 May Term, 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, Nos. 15-17 February Term 1891 and 6-9, 25, 26 May Term 1891, Q. S. On May 8, 1891, George B. Delamater, George Wallace Delamater and T. A. Delamater filed in the Supreme Court, to No. 50 May Term 1891, a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Crawford county.
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Nos. 50-58 May Term, 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, Nos. 15-17 February Term 1891 and 6-9, 25, 26 May Term 1891, Q. S. On May 8, 1891, George B. Delamater, George Wallace Delamater and T. A. Delamater filed in the Supreme Court, to No. 50 May Term 1891, a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Crawford county. The petition recited an information, made against the petitioners before a justice of the peace by the county commissioners of Crawford county, on January 9, 1891, and an indictment in several counts based thereon; the latter, returned by the grand jury as a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson :
There are nine of these cases, and they all involve the same principle. Three of the defendants were members of the banking firm of Delamater & Co., and were indicted in the court below, at the instance of a number of prosecutors, for the offence of receiving the money of said prosecutors knowing the bank to be insolvent. In the case No. 15 of February Term, in the court below, to which I shall more especially refer, it is charged that the money so received was the money of the county of Crawford. Four of said cases appear to be against Victor E. Delamater…
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