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Cummings v. Lebo

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 30, 1829

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1829-06-30

' Error to the Court of Common Pleas' of Northumberland county. • In the court below, Daniel Lebo brought an action of debt on a bond given by John Cummings and Isaac Wertz, in the sum of four hundred dollars, and in the declaration set forth, that the condition of the hond was, that if John Cummings, who Was then under arrest under a Capias ad Satisfaciendum, at the suit of the said Daniel, should not be and appear at the next Court of Common Pleas for Northumberland…

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Decided 1829-06-30

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¶1— Justice, convenience, and common sense, require that this exception should not prevail. Equity would reform such *24a bond as is here set out, on the intrinsic evidence of mistake, which it bears on its face. The-condition is not to appear, and it is in principle' exactly the case- of the promissory npte mentioned by Lord Hardwicke, 2 Atk. 31, in which the borrower promised never to pay. The plaintiff ought to have declared on the instrument according to its legal effect; so that, whether the bond contain the objectionable word or not, the defect in the declaration, being equally the effect of accident,.and amendable below, is to be considered as actually amended here.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

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