Haines, Jones & Cadbury Co. v. Young

Citations

• 13 Pa. Super. 303
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 151

Syllabus

<p>Rules of court — Interpretation thereof — Appeal.</p> <p>Every court is the best judge of its own rules, and will not be reversed for any construction unless it is manifestly erroneous.</p> <p>The trial judge having declared what the interpretation of a rule of • court is, where there is a plea of set-off, the appellate court will not go -outside of the bill of exceptions in search of something to convict the court -of error, the appellant having failed to ask to have the precise rule ineluded in the bill of exceptions. Such an assignment is defective in that dt does not comply with the rules of the Superior Court.</p> <p>Set-off — Unliquidated damages — Measure of.</p> <p>A defendant may set off unliquidated damages arising ex contractu from -any bargain whenever they are capable of liquidation by any known legal standard. Damages incident to defective construction of certain articles 'manufactured and sold for a specific purpose may be measured by the cost -of repairing the injury.</p>