Case ID: serg-rawl_17/html/0250-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[Lancaster,
    May 22, 1828.]
    SCHLOSSER against BROWN.
    IN ERROR.
    After verdict, a declaration containing in substance the essentials of a cause of action is good.
    Error to the Court of Common Pleas of York county. The plaintiff below, (who was also plaintiff in error,) declared as follows:—
    
      William II. Brown, Esq., late of the county aforesaid, attorney at law, was attached to answer Jacob Schlosser of a plea of trespass on the case, &c. Whereupon the said Jacob, by Michael W. Ash, his attorney, complains, — that whereas the said William, on the 20th day of August,. A. D. one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, at the county aforesaid, was employed by the said Jacob, and undertook the care, management, and conducting of a certain suit in the Court of Common Pleas of York county, brought by the said Jacob Schlosser against one Amos Gilbert and George Haller, (now deceased,) to August term, 1819, No. 45; which suit by the negligence, unskilfulness, and want of care on the-part of the said William, was rendered inoperative, lost, and of no effect against the said George Haller and his estate: by reason of which premises the said Jacob has been seriously damnified and hurt, and the money claimed in the aforesaid action by the said Jacob, amounting to a large sum, to wit, to the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, has been entirely lost to him the said Jacob; 'whereas, otherwise, he would have recovered and received the same; to the great damage of the said Jacob of four hundred dollars, and therefore he brings suit, &c.
    Verdict for the plaintiff for two hundred and seventy-one dollars damages.
    The court below arrested the judgment for the insufficiency of the declaration.
    
      Gardner, for the plaintiff in error,
    contended that the narr. wag good after verdict; and cited Whart. Dig. 471, No. 118. 1 Pet. 482. 4 Yeates, 426, 427. 13 Serg. Rawle, 46. 2 Yeates, 539. 10 Serg. & Rawle, 158. 13 Serg. & Rawle, 99. 7 Serg. & Rawle, 309. 1 Dall. 461. 1 Johns. 276.
    
      Wadsworth and Lewis, contra,
    
    referred to 4 Burr. 260. 2 Johns. 571. 2 Mass. 521. 5 Serg. & Rawle, 358.
    
      Gardner, in reply,
    was stopped by the court.
   Per Curiam,

(Tod, J., dissenting.) — This declaration contains in substance all the essentials of a cause of action, which is sufficient after verdict.

Judgment reversed, and judgment entered for the plaintiff