Pigott v. Holloway
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. T7* RROR to the common pleas of Montgomery. Holloway, 11 the plaintiff below, brought indebitatus assumpsit upon a judgment entered by warrant of attorney against Pigott in the common pleas oí Westminster.
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In Error. T7* RROR to the common pleas of Montgomery. Holloway, 11 the plaintiff below, brought indebitatus assumpsit upon a judgment entered by warrant of attorney against Pigott in the common pleas oí Westminster. Ajointcommissionissued to London for the examination of witnesses; with which the plaintiff sent interrogatories to be exhibited to witnesses produced on his own behalf, and other interrogatories for the witnesses that might be produced on behalf of the defendant; and he named as his commissioners Samuel Marshall, of Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet-street, in the city of London, serjeant at…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
This cause comes hefore us on a writ of error to the common pleas of Montgomery county, founded on a bill of exceptions. Thomas Holloway the defendant in error was plaintiff below. His action was founded on a judgment obtained against the defendant in one of the courts of England. A commission to take depositions of witnesses residing in England was moved for by the defendant and issued, in which both plaintiff and defendant joined. Each party exhibited interrogatories. The plaintiff filed interrogatories to be administered to his own witnesses, and also to the witnesses of the…
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