Case ID: pa_262/html/0223-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Simpson,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Myers v. Luzerne County, Appellant.
    Argued May 29, 1918.
    July 17, 1918:
    Appeal, No. 6, Jan. T., 1918, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Luzerne Co., June T., 1915, No. 375, for plaintiff for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense in case of Harry Myers v. County of Luzerne.
    Before Brown, C. J., Moschzisker, Frazer, Walling and Simpson, JJ.
    Reversed.
    Assumpsit on a contract of employment.
    Rule for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. Before Garman, J.
    The facts appear in Moore v. Luzerne County, 262 Pa. 216.
    The court entered judgment for plaintiff for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense. Defendant appealed.
    
      Error assigned was in entering judgment for plaintiff for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense.
    
      Frank A. McGuigan, with him William S. McLean, Sr., for appellant.
    
      John T. Lenahan, for appellee.
   Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

The statement of claim and affidavits of defense in this case ráise the same questions as those in C. H. Moore v. Luzerne County, 262 Pa. 216, No. 5, January Term, 1918. For the reasons set forth in the opinion in that case, this day filed,

This judgment is reversed and a procedendo awarded.