Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1835

Wood v. Hummel

Wood v. Hummel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided May 15, 1835
4 Watts 50

Wood v. Hummel

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

—Perhaps an unreasonable effect has been given to trifling words of severance in cases like the present, particularly in Geddes v; Hawke and Moneagh''v. Butler, where words binding heirs, executors and administrators, and “each” of them, were held to work a severance, though they are such as are used when there is but one obligor. It is however too late to recede, particularly in a case like the present, which is the exact counterpart of Besore v. Potter, 12 Serg. & Rawle 154. On the authority of that case we hold the bond before us to be joint and several.

Judgment affirmed.

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