Crutcher v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court for the City and County .of Philadelphia. This was an action of debt brought in the District Court, to September term, 1839, in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, against Thomas E. Wilson, F. G. Crutcher and F. H. Morgan, upon a bail bond given by the defendants, in the sum of $9000. The circumstances under which the case came before this court, were as follows.
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Error to the District Court for the City and County .of Philadelphia. This was an action of debt brought in the District Court, to September term, 1839, in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, against Thomas E. Wilson, F. G. Crutcher and F. H. Morgan, upon a bail bond given by the defendants, in the sum of $9000. The circumstances under which the case came before this court, were as follows. To March term, 1839, of the District Court, Moses Wanzer and Jabez Harrison, trading under the firm of Wanzer & Harrison, brought an action on the case against Thomas E. Wilson. The suit was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
The firm of Wanzer & Harrison brought suit to re-’ cover the amount of two notes from Thomas E Wilson. Crutcher and Morgan, who, with Wilson, are the present defendants, became bail in the action,- and entered into a bail bond to the commonwealth, in the sum of nine thousand dollars, on this condition; that if Wilson should be condemned in the action brought against him, he would satisfy the condemnation money and costs, or surrender himself into the custody of the sheriff; or that in default thereof, Crutcher and Morgan would do so for him.…
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