Commonwealth v. Patterson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to a special court of Indiana county. The Commonwealth for the use of the commissioners of Indiana county against Jane Patterson, Samuel Hill, Archibald Matthews, and Robert Nixon.
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ERROR to a special court of Indiana county. The Commonwealth for the use of the commissioners of Indiana county against Jane Patterson, Samuel Hill, Archibald Matthews, and Robert Nixon. This was an action of debt on an administration bond, in the penalty of 2000 dollars, in which the jury found the following special verdict: “ That administration was granted on the estate of Thomas Patterson, on the 19th of July 1827, to Jane Patterson and Samuel Hill, and that they, with the other defendants, executed and delivered the bond on which this action was brought. They further find that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court Avas delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
In The Commonwealth v. Bryan, 8 Serg. & Rawle 132, the chief justice strongly inclined to think this act of 1797 was not intended to be a general statute of limitations; but in consequence of its supposed obscurity, the decision of the cause was put upon another point. Its obscurity, however, is readily dissipated by considering its parts in connection with its object. The mischief recited in the preamble is, that the legal representatives, creditors, and sureties in administration bonds, Avere sometimes injured by the wasting of a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. BryanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1822
3Cited by1 opinion
- Miltenberger v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1850