Anderson v. Neff
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This cause was commenced in the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county, by virtue of a written agreement, in these words: “Agreement to enter amicable action on the- case and to refer.
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This cause was commenced in the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county, by virtue of a written agreement, in these words: “Agreement to enter amicable action on the- case and to refer. Robert Jlnderson and Samuel ^ J Enter amicable action in the Court of Common Pleas of Lancanter couty, to November term, 1819, to decide the following controversy, that is to say: “Whereas to January Term, 1815, No. 391, judgment is entered in the said court, in favour of John Neff, against Thomas Clark, Esq. on the 14th day of March, 1815, for the sum of tw6 thousand dollars, -payable in sixty days after…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J.
The first, second, and third bills of exceptions have been abandoned by the plaintiffs in error. They fell within'the principles of Gephart’s Executor v. Gephart, “that a plaintiff executor, not having released the contingent compensation, in the nature of commissions, which might be allowed to him, on the sum recovered in the action, on the settlement of his- accounts in the Orphans’ Court, is not a competent witness.”
*219The fourth bill of exceptions, relates to the deposition of Andrew Walker. This deposition was objected to in the whole and…
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