Russell v. Miller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county. This was an amicable action of assumpsit to June Term 1857, between Charles Miller and Joseph Patterson, trading as Charles Miller & Co., plaintiffs, and Thomas M. Bussell and others, executors, &c., of Andrew Bussell, deceased, defendants.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county. This was an amicable action of assumpsit to June Term 1857, between Charles Miller and Joseph Patterson, trading as Charles Miller & Co., plaintiffs, and Thomas M. Bussell and others, executors, &c., of Andrew Bussell, deceased, defendants. The suit was upon two notes from Bussell to Miller & Co.; one ■ dated March 1st 1852, at four months, for $3000 ; the other dated March 25th 1852, at four months, for $1673.07. The pleas were non assumpsit, and payment with leave, &c., and set-off. On the 1st of January 1846, the assignees of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Agnew, J.
A careful examination of the voluminous correspondence and testimony in this case proves that the debts contained in the judgment of Safford & Co. and of Thomas Earp against Andrew Russell were for the indebtedness of Thomas C. Williams, and can be traced into the liabilities aggregated at $53,150, acknowledged by Williams December 24th 1847, and contained in Russell’s detailed statement of December 30th 1847.
This aggregate was the sum of the liabilities of Williams secured by the assignment of his lease to Russell at the time when the…
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