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1 Monag. 161

Carroll v. Doster

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided February 4, 1889

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1889-02-04

Error, No. 216, July T. 1888, to C. P. No. 2, Philadelphia Co., to review a judgment on a verdict for the plaintiff in an action of assumpsit upon a promissory note, at Sept. T. 1885, No. 308. Green, J., absent. The following was printed in the paper book of plaintiff iix error, as the evidence given on the trial before Mitchell, J.: Plaintiff offered in evidence the following note: “ $616.56.

Relies on Fulton v. Hood · Swope v. Jefferson Fire Insurance · National Bank v. Kirk

Decided 1889-02-04

Per Curiam,

¶1This case is affirmed by an equal division.

¶2Feb. 13, 1889. Motion for re-argument before a full Bench.

¶3The following reasons were assigned in support of the motion: 1. The affirmance by an equal division, having been occasioned by the absence of one of the Judges, and the sitting of the Judge who tried the case in the court below, has deprived petitioner of his right *167to writ of error. 2. The affirmance was reached by considering, first, the arguments in the paper books or at the hearing, or, second, some principle not suggested by counsel. 3. The facts proved at the trial demonstrate, first, either an attempt to defeat the law for punishing offenders, or, second, the procuring of a promissory note by false, immoral and illegal means, and without consideration. 4. The law points raised remain unsettled. 5. The plaintiff in error, being an accommodation endorser, without consideration, which was known to defendant in error, is entitled to a full hearing by all the judges. If he pays the judgment it will be on a mere legal technicality. 6. The questions involved are of great interest to the commercial public.

¶4Per Curiam. — Feb. 18, 1889. — Motion denied.

¶5W. M. S., Jr.

¶6Cf. Fulton v. Hood, 34 Pa. 365, commented on in National Bank of Oxford v. Kirk, 90 Pa. 51. See, also, Swope v. Ins. Co., 93 Pa. 251.

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