Hatch v. Stitt
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong county: No. 27, to October and November Term 1869. To September Term 1864 a suit in assumpsit was commenced and entered on the record, with attorneys’ names in the margin as follows:— ‘Boggs. Samuel Stitt v. Barclay & Joseph Zuver and D. P. Hatch, copartners Smullen. and owners of Steamer Home.” The sheriff returned: “ 8th August 1864, served on Joseph Zuver personally, and as to D. P. Hatch not found in my bailiwick.”
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong county: No. 27, to October and November Term 1869. To September Term 1864 a suit in assumpsit was commenced and entered on the record, with attorneys’ names in the margin as follows:— ‘Boggs. Samuel Stitt v. Barclay & Joseph Zuver and D. P. Hatch, copartners Smullen. and owners of Steamer Home.” The sheriff returned: “ 8th August 1864, served on Joseph Zuver personally, and as to D. P. Hatch not found in my bailiwick.” On the 15th of August the plaintiff filed a bill of particulars, and declared that “ Joseph Zuver, interpleaded with D. P.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 3d 1871, by
Read, J.
— The suit as it was brought and stood upon the docket below, was “ Samuel Stitt v. Joseph Zuver and D. P. Hatch, copartners and owners of Steamer Home.”
In Jackson v. Stewart, 6 Johns. R. 37, the court said “ the attempt of the defendant to question the authority of tjie attorney for the plaintiff, in bringing the suit, was also unavailing. It is the course of the K. B., said Ch. J. Holt, 1 Salk. 86, when an attorney takes upon himself to appear, to look no further, but to proceed as if the attorney had sufficient authority,…
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