M'Kinney v. Crawford
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
WRIT of error to Centre county. The defendant in error, fames Crawford, brought a suit against the plaintiff in error, Isaac M Kinney, on a soiy note, dated the 1st of April, 1816, drawn by Matthias Lightly, for ninety-three dollars fifty-four cents, payable on demand to M1 Kinney, by whom it was endorsed about eight months after its date.
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WRIT of error to Centre county. The defendant in error, fames Crawford, brought a suit against the plaintiff in error, Isaac M Kinney, on a soiy note, dated the 1st of April, 1816, drawn by Matthias Lightly, for ninety-three dollars fifty-four cents, payable on demand to M1 Kinney, by whom it was endorsed about eight months after its date. On this note, a suit was brought, before, a justice of the peace, by MlKinney, for the use Crawford, against Lightly, the drawer, in which a judgment was obtained, on the 14th of December, 1816. This ment was assigned to John Rankin, by whom an execution…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Duncan J. —
The transcript from the justice’s docket of the suit by Rankin v. Crawford, -was relevant. It was evidence to go to the jury, to shew that M>Kinney, who was special bail in that action, had knowledge of non-payment of the note by Lightly, the drawer. Its legal effect was another consideration.
The evidence offered by the plaintiff in error, to shew that Lightly, at the time of his discharge under the Bread Act, had a sufficient sum of money then about his person, to discharge the judgment against him as drawer, on which judgment he was…
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