Humphrey v. County National Bank
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clearfield coxmty: Of July Term 1885, No. 85. Assumpsit brought December 30th, 1876, by The County National Bank of Clearfield against Abram Humphrey, to recover the amount of two promissory notes. Pleas, non assumpsit, payment, set-off with leave. The defendant claimed by set-off certain notes of A. C. Finney, and asked to have a balance certified in his favor.
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. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clearfield coxmty: Of July Term 1885, No. 85. Assumpsit brought December 30th, 1876, by The County National Bank of Clearfield against Abram Humphrey, to recover the amount of two promissory notes. Pleas, non assumpsit, payment, set-off with leave. The defendant claimed by set-off certain notes of A. C. Finney, and asked to have a balance certified in his favor. The facts of the ease sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. On the trial the plaintiff presented, inter alia, the following points: 2. Under the pleading and evidence and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
This was an action of assumpsit brought to recover the amount of two promissory notes discounted by the County National Bank of Clearfield, plaintiff below, one of said notes amounting to $1,975 ; the other to $169.04. The defence set up was that the notes in suit were renewals of notes discounted by the bank as early as 1866 ; that prior to the discount of the original note the defendant left with the bank certain notes of one A. C. Finney, indorsed by Samuel Mitchell, to the amount of $4,000, the longest of which notes had thirty months to run; that these notes were left with the bank by an…
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