Wright v. Keyes
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ebbob to the court of Common Pleas oí McKean county : Of January Term 1883, No. 287. Debt, by D. M. Wright against S. S. Moses and D. J. Keyes on a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars given by said defendants to D. M. Wright under the following circumstances : In February 1877, D. M. Wright issued a writ of foreign attachment against S. S. Moses, requiring bail in the sum of $1,000. The attachment was served by attaching a quantity of hemlock timber then lying in…
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Ebbob to the court of Common Pleas oí McKean county : Of January Term 1883, No. 287. Debt, by D. M. Wright against S. S. Moses and D. J. Keyes on a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars given by said defendants to D. M. Wright under the following circumstances : In February 1877, D. M. Wright issued a writ of foreign attachment against S. S. Moses, requiring bail in the sum of $1,000. The attachment was served by attaching a quantity of hemlock timber then lying in the Allegheny river. On March 14th 1877, 1). J. Keyes and 8. S. Moses, executed the following instrument in writing: “…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
An action commenced by writ of foreign attachment, issued February 10th 1877, was pending, wherein D. M. Wright was plaintiff and S. S. Moses defendant. In the next month said defendant and D. J. Keyes, by an instrument signed and sealed, acknowledged themselves to be indebted to said D. M. Wright in the sum of $1,000, to be void on the condition that said defendant shall pay to said Wright the debt or damages, interest and cost that may be recovered against him in said foreign attachment. On the 14-tli of March, before a justice of the peace, Keyes acknowledged his signature and made…
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