Young v. Patterson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 115, Oct. T., 1894, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., March T., 1893, No. 136, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit on bond.
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Appeal, No. 115, Oct. T., 1894, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., March T., 1893, No. 136, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit on bond. Before Collier, J. This action was upon a bond given by defendant to “ Mrs. Jane Young, for her own interest and as trustee of the heirs of William Young, deceased, according to their respective interests,” conditioned for the payment “unto the said Mrs. Jane Young, her executors, administrators or assigns, the just sum of twenty-two hundred and twenty-three dollars in two years from the date hereof, with legal interest from the date…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Dean,
There is no history of the case in appellant’s paper-book. What purports to be one, is an averment of facts, with no proof to sustain them, and an earnest argument to convict the court below of error at the trial. It gives us no aid in a proper understanding of the case, and if a motion to quash for this cause had been made by opposing counsel before argument, the motion, probably, would have prevailed.
As we gather from the fragments of evidence in the paper-book, on the 17th of August, 1883, there was due and owing from T. H. Baird Patterson, defendant, to Mrs.…
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