Legal Opinion

Pennsylvania Pulp & Paper Co. v. Stoughton

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 19, 1884No. 204PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Clinton County: Of July Term, 1883, No. 204. This was, in the court below, a certiorari directed to Aider-man W. K. Fearon, of the city of Lock Haven, to remove the proceedings in a suit before him in which D. R. Stoughton was plaintiff and the Pennsylvania Pulp Company was defendant.

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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, of Clinton County: Of July Term, 1883, No. 204. This was, in the court below, a certiorari directed to Aider-man W. K. Fearon, of the city of Lock Haven, to remove the proceedings in a suit before him in which D. R. Stoughton was plaintiff and the Pennsylvania Pulp Company was defendant. The alderman’s transcript‘showed that the sum demanded was $277.36, being the balance claimed to be due upon an account for labor and goods furnished by plaintiff to defendant. The alderman, after hearing, entered judgment for plaintiff for that sum. The defendant’s…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon

This was a writ of certiorari, issued by the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton County, to W. K. Fearnon, an alderman, or justice of the peace, of said county, to bring up his judgment and proceedings in the above entitled case, for hearing and adjudication. These proceedings were duly examined and affirmed in and by said court, and judgment was entered for the plaintiff.

The case now comes to us on a writ of error, and we are asked to review the judgment of the court below; but without a violation of the emphatic prohibition of the Act of 1810, this we cannot do. The 22d section of that Act…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Crumley v. Crescent Coal Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
  2. Phœnix Iron Works Co. v. MullenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
  3. Huntington & Broad Top Mountain Railroad v. FlukeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1906
  4. Alexander & Co. v. GoldsteinSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
  5. Widener v. SchwartzSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1920

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