Kirkpatrick v. Muirhead
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was an action of debt on a promissory note, brought by William Muirhead against William -Kirkpatrick. The note was as follows:— 11 March 1842, sixty days after date, I promise to pay to William Muirhead or order, at the Lancaster Bank, $186,22, without defalcation, value received. William Kirkpatrick. The case had been tried in December 1842, when verdict was rendered for defendant. The judgment was reversed.
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Error, to the Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was an action of debt on a promissory note, brought by William Muirhead against William -Kirkpatrick. The note was as follows:— 11 March 1842, sixty days after date, I promise to pay to William Muirhead or order, at the Lancaster Bank, $186,22, without defalcation, value received. William Kirkpatrick. The case had been tried in December 1842, when verdict was rendered for defendant. The judgment was reversed. Tried again in March 1844, and verdict rendered for defendant. The judgment was reversed in May 1846. In 1848, again tried and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered May 19, by
Bell, J.
On the trial of this action, brought by the plaintiff below as payee of a promissory note drawn by the defendant below, the latter offered to prove, as a full defence, that the note in question was given in lieu of another note previously drawn by William and Ephraim Kirkpatrick in favor of Capron & Co., and delivered to them, with other notes, in payment of certain personal property, *122and the lease of certain real estate, purchased by the defendant for the drawees; that a portion of the personal chattels so purchased, to an amount…
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