Crouse v. Miller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia county. Assumpsit in the court below, brought on the 21st November, 1818, by Henry Miller, the defendant in error, plaintiff below, against Andrew Crouse and Charles B. Crouse.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia county. Assumpsit in the court below, brought on the 21st November, 1818, by Henry Miller, the defendant in error, plaintiff below, against Andrew Crouse and Charles B. Crouse. The declaration which was filed in November, 1820, contained three counts: the first was in indebitatus assumpsit, stating that on the 1st November, 1818, the defendants were indebted to the plaintiff in 500 dollars, for the use and occupation of a store-house and buildings, and laying the promise on the same day: the second count was on a quantum meriut for the same: the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, J.
As the matters contained in the first bill of tions were offered again in a subsequent stage of the cause, and admitted, it is unnecessary to say any thing with respect to the propriety of their rejection when first offered. There is, however, another bill of exceptions which it is necessary to consider. The defendant below had given in evidence his books of original entries a part of which was in the hand writing of his son Charles *158B. Crouse, who was not called, being out of the state; and the plaintiff proposed to examine a witness to his…
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