Hensel v. Noble
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 106. Trover and conversion by Jesse Noble against Hensel k Reeg for one wagon wheel.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 106. Trover and conversion by Jesse Noble against Hensel k Reeg for one wagon wheel. At the trial, before White, A. L. J., the plaintiff testified that he called at the defendants’ shop in Allegheny city and bargained with them to re-tire one of the wheels of his wagon for $1.’50; that he called again when the wheel was done, and tendered to the defendants $1.50 and demanded his wheel; and that they ^refused to take the money and deliver the wheel, alleging that the contract was for the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The amount in dispute between the parties to this contention, did not, in the outset, exceed a dollar and a half. If we were to adopt that sum as the proper standard of its magnitude, the case would be a very small one, so small, indeed, as to bring it almost within the maxim, de minimis non curat lex ; but, perhaps, neither the luxury of a lawsuit, nor the importance, in the eyes of the parties, of the legal principles it may be supposed to involve, should be measured by such a petty rule as that. Whether prompted by the love of litigation, pure and simple, or by the more laudable desire to…
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- Brouse v. OligerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1908
- Greenberg v. Mowrer, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lancaster County1948