Commonwealth v. Haines
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1879, No. 259. Debt on an official bond, by the Commonwealth, to the use of Stephen S. Price, against H. Clay Haines, Josiah Haines and Clayton Haines.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1879, No. 259. Debt on an official bond, by the Commonwealth, to the use of Stephen S. Price, against H. Clay Haines, Josiah Haines and Clayton Haines. On the trial, before Mitchell, J., the plaintiff’s evidence showed the following facts: In February 1874, the defendant, H. Clay Haines, was duly appointed and commissioned a notary public of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, residing in the city of Philadelphia, for the term of three years. He gave bond to the Commonwealth in the usual form, with the other two…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
_ This action was against a notary public and his sureties on his official bond. The complaint is that he certified to one Abram P. Beecher having personally appeared before him and in due form of law acknowledged a certain indenture of mortgage to be' his act and deed, when in fact the person who appeared before him and made the acknowledgment was not Abram P. Beecher, whereby said plaintiff was injured.
The plaintiff called Abram P. Beecher, who owned the lot described in the mortgage on which the notary made the certificate. He testified that this mortgage was not executed by him, nor by…
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- Withers v. BairdSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
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