Bonner v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. This was an action of ejectment by Jeremiah Bonner, R. P. Arnold and others, heirs and devisees of Andrew Arnold, deceased, against John Campbell, P. G. Reed, William Paine, James Robbins and others, to enforce payment of the purchase-money for two thousand acres of land in Madison township. The suit was brought July 22d 1848, and arbitrated in 1849, with an award for plaintiffs.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. This was an action of ejectment by Jeremiah Bonner, R. P. Arnold and others, heirs and devisees of Andrew Arnold, deceased, against John Campbell, P. G. Reed, William Paine, James Robbins and others, to enforce payment of the purchase-money for two thousand acres of land in Madison township. The suit was brought July 22d 1848, and arbitrated in 1849, with an award for plaintiffs. On the 27th day of November 1849, Peter G. Reed, one of the defendants, appealed from the award, and entered into recognisance “for defendants” in the usual form. On the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Agnew, J.
— The record shows that the appeal from the award of arbitrators was by all the defendants, though William G. Reed was the only one who acted in taking it. The recognisance entered into by him for costs recognises all, and after the appeal the record exhibits all as the subjects of the orders of the court for the payment of costs. So the case stood for eleven years, when William G. Reed undertook to withdraw the appeal on the ground that he was the only appellant. This withdrawal the court vacated as to Campbell and Paine, and the case went to…
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