Bock v. Lauman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to tbe Common Pleas of Dauphin county. This-was an action of assumpsit by George A. Bock and A. D. Inglis, using the firm of Bock & Inglis, endorsers of a bill of exchange, v. George M. Lauman, J. 0. Rockafellow, and James Moore, doing business under the firm of Lauman, Rockafellow & Moore, endorsers. The writ was served on Lauman & Rocka-fellow only.
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ERROR to tbe Common Pleas of Dauphin county. This-was an action of assumpsit by George A. Bock and A. D. Inglis, using the firm of Bock & Inglis, endorsers of a bill of exchange, v. George M. Lauman, J. 0. Rockafellow, and James Moore, doing business under the firm of Lauman, Rockafellow & Moore, endorsers. The writ was served on Lauman & Rocka-fellow only. The bill of exchange was in form as follows: $4500.00 Buffalo, August 20, 1853. Four months after date, pay to the order of A. D. Patchin, President R. and N. T. C. R. R., $4500, at tbe Rank of Commerce, in New York, value received, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Lowrie, J.
Though this cause was argued in the Common Pleas, as it was here, as if it was to be governed by the usury laws of New York; yet it nowhere appears upon the record that those laws were given in evidence, or, in any formal way, made the rule or the subject of the decision. In strictness, therefore, it *445would be presumed here that the parties regarded the laws of New York as of no importance in the cause. And since it cannot be unlawful, by our laws, for a man to make a usurious contract in New York, we should have no difficulty in allowing the…
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