Bank of Pennsylvania v. Haldeman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR.’ Writ of error' to tbc District Court of Lancaster county. The defendants in error were plaintiffs below, and brought an action on the case, against the Bank of Pennsylvania, to recover the sum of two thousand live hundred dollars, with interest from the 22d March, 1819, under the following circumstances.
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IN ERROR.’ Writ of error' to tbc District Court of Lancaster county. The defendants in error were plaintiffs below, and brought an action on the case, against the Bank of Pennsylvania, to recover the sum of two thousand live hundred dollars, with interest from the 22d March, 1819, under the following circumstances. Samuel Jacobs, the plaintiff’s testator, was a depositor in the Bank of Pennsylvania, which in the year 1819, paid six checks signed « Samuel Jacobs,” the last of which was for two thousand five hundred dollars, and dated 22d March, 1819, and for the amount of which this suit is…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smith, J.
The defendants in error, who were plaintiffs below, brought an action of assumpsit, for money had'and received, against the plaintiffs in error. The cause was tried on the pleas of nonassumpsit, and payment with leave to-give the special matters in evidence. On the trial, various bills of exceptions were taken by the defendants, to the admission and rejection of testimony, and to the charge of the court. It became necessary to decide whether a certain paper, purporting to be a check, on the office of discount and deposit for two thousand five…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Allen v. RostainSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1824
- Strohecker v. GrantSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1827
- Farmer's Bank v. WhitehillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1823
- Stevens v. GreggSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1823