Gross v. Leber
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was an action of debt on a bond by Jacob Leber, for the use of George Weidler’s executors, against John W. Gross, Martin Gross, and Jacob L. Gross, trustees of Ann Albright. The bond of defendants, dated April 25th 1848, was in the penal sum of $1000, conditioned for the payment of $498.86, on the 1st day of April 1849, with interest from, date.
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Error to tbe Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was an action of debt on a bond by Jacob Leber, for the use of George Weidler’s executors, against John W. Gross, Martin Gross, and Jacob L. Gross, trustees of Ann Albright. The bond of defendants, dated April 25th 1848, was in the penal sum of $1000, conditioned for the payment of $498.86, on the 1st day of April 1849, with interest from, date. On the 2d of April 1849, it was assigned to George Weidler, who died since suit brought; whereupon it was marked to the use of his executors. On the trial the plaintiffs proved the execution and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
A&new, J.
The obscurity of the offer of evidence rejected by the court below, which forms the only ground of error assigned, makes it necessary to ascertain, whether the matters offered in evidence raise the real question before the court.
Evidence consists not only of the facts proven, but also of all the just inferences derivable from them. In making an offer of evidence, it is certainly not necessary to state all the legal consequences which plainly flow from the facts offered to be proved; a court will take notice of them.
I shall state the matters…
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