Willing v. Peters
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. brought this action in the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia, against the plaintiff in error, Thomas Willing, to recover a balance of eleven hundred and forty-four dollars, seventy-four cents, due upon a promissory note for two thousand dollars, dated December 2d, 1816, payable sixty days after date, drawn by the defendant below in favour of the plaintiff, by whom it was endorsed, and upon a loan of three hundred dollars by the latter to the…
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IN ERROR. brought this action in the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia, against the plaintiff in error, Thomas Willing, to recover a balance of eleven hundred and forty-four dollars, seventy-four cents, due upon a promissory note for two thousand dollars, dated December 2d, 1816, payable sixty days after date, drawn by the defendant below in favour of the plaintiff, by whom it was endorsed, and upon a loan of three hundred dollars by the latter to the former. The account produced by the plaintiff exhibit! ng the balance, showed that he had received about sixty per cent,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tilghman, C. J.
This action was commenced by Richard Peters, jr., against Thomas Willing, in the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia. Pending the action, Richard Peters assigned all his interest in the claim which he was prosecuting against the defendant, to Joseph Curwen, upon which the action was marked on the docket, for the use of the said Curwen. The amount of Peters’ claim, assigned to Curwen, was eleven hundred and fifty dollars. Peters owed that sum to Curwen, and Curwen acknowledged himself, under hand and seal, to be…
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