Gilfert v. Lamond

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 394
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 379

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Promissory notes — Payment—Agreement to submit indictments.</p> <p>Where a person is indicted on three indictments for obtaining by false pretense $500, $250, and $200, from three prosecutrices respectively, and at the trial of the first indictment, it is agreed that the defendant shall pay the whole sum of $950, within a time stated, and give three promissory notes payable after such time stated and signed by the defendant and other parties to secure said payment, and the first indictment is to be submitted and a verdict of not guilty taken, and the other two indictments are to be submitted after payment of the whole sum of $950, the makers of the notes cannot defend against paying them because the second two indictments were not dismissed but prosecuted, if it appears that there was a default in the payment of the $950 at the time stated.</p>