Reynolds v. Cridge
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEFENDANTS FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 1 OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 203 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 292 June Term 1887, C. P. No. 1. On May 2,1887, Hannah Reynolds and William Walton, executors of Samuel Reynolds, deceased, brought case against Matthew Cridge. Issue.
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APPEAL BY DEFENDANTS FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 1 OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 203 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 292 June Term 1887, C. P. No. 1. On May 2,1887, Hannah Reynolds and William Walton, executors of Samuel Reynolds, deceased, brought case against Matthew Cridge. Issue. At the trial on April 25, 1889, testimony was introduced upon which it was claimed by the plaintiff: That in 1873 the defendant was president of the Lawrence-ville & Evergreen Passenger Railway Company, and loaned to it $7,000, receiving as collateral security therefor bonds of the company owned…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Mitchell:
The first assignment of error not being according to rule, neither the paper itself, nor the evidence on which it was admitted as a copy, being set out, we must treat it as abandoned.
The offers in the second and third assignments were cer*194tainly relevant on the subject of the expenses incurred by defendant in saving to the collaterals a large part if not the whole value they had at the time of the alleged conversion. It appears from all the evidence, and especially that of Judge Magee, that the road was generally considered worthless, and that the amount realized…
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