Cohen v. Teller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1877, No. 51. Assumpsit by August Cohen against Solomon Teller, on a promissory note, drawn by M’. Kuhn & Brother, to tbe order of the defendant and endorsed by him. The defendant alleged that the endorsement was a forgery. Moses Kuhn, one of the partners of Kuhn & Brother, was the son-in-law of defendant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1877, No. 51. Assumpsit by August Cohen against Solomon Teller, on a promissory note, drawn by M’. Kuhn & Brother, to tbe order of the defendant and endorsed by him. The defendant alleged that the endorsement was a forgery. Moses Kuhn, one of the partners of Kuhn & Brother, was the son-in-law of defendant. Teller Brothers were in the habit of loaning money to Kuhn & Brother and Solomon Teller, who was the senior member of the firm of Teller Brothers, was on most of the paper of Kuhn & Brother as accommodation…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
There are forty-three assignments of error in this case. I have examined them all patiently and laboriously. To discuss them in detail would extend this opinion to an unreasonable length. Nor is it necessary. While the record abounds in exceptions, many of the errors assigned have been cured by the subsequent rulings of the court; evidence improperly excluded having been afterwards admitted, and evidence improperly admitted subsequently stricken out.
The suit below was an action of assumpsit, brought by August Cohen, the plaintiff, against Solomon Teller, the defendant, as endorser of a…
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