Legal Opinion

Webster Appeal

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 6, 1878PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1878, No. 232. Appeal from the decree of the court, Harding, P. J., confirming the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the fund arising ftom a sheriff’s sale of the real estate of Jacob Adams. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of this court.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward

On the 30th of October 1874, Philip Banker obtained a judg*411ment in the Common Pleas of Luzerne against Jacob Adams for $700. He was the endorser of a note of Adams for the same amount, which had been discounted by the Wyoming National Bank, on the 7th of October, and the judgment was .confessed in order to indemnify him against liability for its payment. The note matured on the 9th of December 1874, and on that day, in the absence of Banker, at the solicitation of Adams, and upon his assurance that Banker’s judgment should be assigned to him for his protection, Robert Baur endorsed a new note…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ramsey's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1834

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Campbell v. Foster Home Ass'nSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
  2. Lackawanna Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. GomeringerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
  3. Haverford Loan & Building Ass'n v. Fire Ass'nSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
  4. Grambo v. South Side Bank & Trust Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
  5. Leggate v. KornSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1920

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