Silverthorn v. Hollister
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county: Of October and November Term 1878, No. 33. Appeal of M. H. Silverthorn and others, commissioners of Erie county, from the order of the court releasing a fund arising from the sale of real estate bound by a judgment given to the county of Erie to indemnify said county for the expense of keeping Martha Hollister, an insane person, at a hospital for the insane.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county: Of October and November Term 1878, No. 33. Appeal of M. H. Silverthorn and others, commissioners of Erie county, from the order of the court releasing a fund arising from the sale of real estate bound by a judgment given to the county of Erie to indemnify said county for the expense of keeping Martha Hollister, an insane person, at a hospital for the insane. The judgment was entered upon a bond by O. C. and S. A. Hollister and by M. W. Moffit and James Lewis, in the sum of $500, with warrant of attorney to confess judgment, given to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice
delivered the opinion of the court,
The bond upon which the judgment which is the subject of this contention was entered, was given to indemnify the county of Erie for the expense of keeping Martha Hollister, a lunatic, and the wife of one of the obligors, at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. The penalty of said bond was $500; the condition was that C. C. Hollister should pay into the county treasury the sum of $39 quarterly, or such other sum as the county should be required to pay for the support of the said Martha Hollister, and fully indemnify the county against…
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