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4 Yeates 518

Thursby v. Gray

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 15, 1808

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1808-07-15

Writ of error to the Common Pleas of Northumberland county. The case was this, as stated by Mr. President Cooper, in his written opinion filed, agreeably to the act of assembly. The suit was brought in debt on bond. Plea payment with leave to give the special matter in evidence.

Decided 1808-07-15

Yeates, J.

¶1said that it had been determined in the Circuit Court at Lancaster, between Dehuff and Turbett’s executors, that the grounds of the equity jurisdiction between surety and principal failed under our system, as to the point in question. No action had ever yet been framed in a court of law, in nature of a bill in equity, by a surety to compel his principal to take up the joint bond, or against the creditor to compel him to bring suit; but it had not been asserted, that no conduct whatever of the creditor should discharge the sureties.

¶2Judgment reversed, a new trial awarded, and the record remitted.

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