Milliken v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin county, in which the plaintiffs and defendant in error were plaintiffs and defendant below, a verdict and judgment having been tendered for the defendant. The action was debt on recognizance, brought by Foster Milliken and David Milliken, trading under the firm of Foster Milliken & Co. against William Brown.
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This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin county, in which the plaintiffs and defendant in error were plaintiffs and defendant below, a verdict and judgment having been tendered for the defendant. The action was debt on recognizance, brought by Foster Milliken and David Milliken, trading under the firm of Foster Milliken & Co. against William Brown. The plaintiffs had recovered a judgment on the 4th February, 1819, in the same court, in a suit brought to Jlugust term, 1818, against John Brown, William, Brown, Jr. and Dr. John Watson, on a report of arbitrators, for the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J.
This was an action of debt on a recognizance entered into bj' the defendant in error, defendant below, to the plaintiffs in error, under the act of 21st March, 1806, to regulate arbitrations and proceedings in,courts of justice, in order to entitle John Brown, William Brown, and John Watson, the defendants in a judgment obtained by the Millikens, to a stay of execution, and was to secure the payment of the debt, interest, and costs, recovered by them in that judgment.
The defence was, that notwithstanding this recognizance, the plaintiffs had…
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