Snyder v. Castor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Yeates, J. who-tried the cause at Nisi Prius, on the 5th March instant, reported the case and evidence as follows : The # -j ^action was brought to December term 1801, and the declaration contained two counts. The first was a general indebitatus assumpsit for work, labour and service, done by the feme before marriage; the second contained a quantum meruit. To which the defendant pleaded non assumpsit and payment, with leave, &c. and also the acts of limitations.
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Yeates, J. who-tried the cause at Nisi Prius, on the 5th March instant, reported the case and evidence as follows : The # -j ^action was brought to December term 1801, and the declaration contained two counts. The first was a general indebitatus assumpsit for work, labour and service, done by the feme before marriage; the second contained a quantum meruit. To which the defendant pleaded non assumpsit and payment, with leave, &c. and also the acts of limitations. It appeared in evidence on tjje trial, that Hannah Snyder the plaintiff, was the daughter of George Castor, deceased, bom in 1748,…
1Opinion of the CourtTilgitman, C. J.
after detailing the case and facts minutely, delivered the unanimous opinion of the court as follows:
Several objections have been taken to the declaration. I do not conceive that those objections can properly be urged on this argument, because the question now before us is not, whether *the. declaration is good, but whether it is supported by the evidence. If it is fundamentally bad, the defendant 35/ may hereafter move in arrest of judgment. I very much doubt, however, whether any defect which has been pointed out is fatal.
The act of limitations has been insisted on. It does not appear that…
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