Beltzhoover v. Blackstock
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
WRIT of error to the court of common pleas of Mleghany county. This was an action brought by William Blackstock and George Blackstock, partners trading under the firm of William Blackstock & Co., against Jacob Beltzhoover, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the plaintiffs below.
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WRIT of error to the court of common pleas of Mleghany county. This was an action brought by William Blackstock and George Blackstock, partners trading under the firm of William Blackstock & Co., against Jacob Beltzhoover, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the plaintiffs below. The action was brought to recover the amount of two promissory notes, drawn on the 24th of November Í828, by Henry Holdship and Son, in favour of and indorsed by Jacob Beltzhoover or order, and delivered by the makers to Thomas Hind; one for 1016 dollars payable in ninety days, and the other…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
The defence set up on the trial would be clearly admissible in a suit by Hind; but this being a suit of another holder, to whom Hind passed the notes, something more must be shown by the defendants before they can affect the plaintiffs by the want of consideration between the original parties: and the question is, whether sufficient was shown to justify the admission of the evidence offered.
The defendants have undertaken to place the plaintiffs in the situation of Hind, by proof of a knowledge on their part of the objections to these notes,…
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