Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. v. Loftus
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writs of error to the Mayor’s Court of Scranton: No. 408 and 409, to January Term 1871. The causes of action in both the cases brought up by these writs of error were precisely similar. They were suits brought by James Loftus against The Managers and Company of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, before M. W. Loftus, a justice of the peace.
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Writs of error to the Mayor’s Court of Scranton: No. 408 and 409, to January Term 1871. The causes of action in both the cases brought up by these writs of error were precisely similar. They were suits brought by James Loftus against The Managers and Company of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, before M. W. Loftus, a justice of the peace. The first was a “ Summons Debt,” issued May 31st 1869. * * * “ Now, June 7th 1869, parties appear and plaintiff claims $26 in a plea of debt for work and labor done for defendants, and adjourned by request of defendants until June 14th 1869, at 1 P. M.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, C. J.
The defendant in error in these cases has not furnished an argument written or oral to this court; we have, however, given to the assignments of error all due consideration, but without being able to coincide with the learned recorder in opinion, that it was proper to quash these appeals of the plaintiff in error, from the judgment of the alderman.
In the first place the plaintiff^below was too late in making his motion to quash. The appeals were taken and entered to the September Term of the court, and the plaintiff appeared to them by…
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