195 Pa. 497 | Pa. | 1900
This is an appeal from the refusal of the court below to open a judgment entered on a bond under seal. A seal imports a consideration and creates a legal obligation: Candor & Henderson’s Appeal, 27 Pa. 120. In an action upon a bond or note under seal want of consideration is no defense: Sherk v. Endress, 3 W. & S. 255; Yard v. Patton, 13 Pa. 278 ; Anderson v. Best, 176 Pa. 498.
In the suit of Cosgrove v. Cummings the defendant offered to ex^ute and deliver to the plaintiff a bond to indemnify or secure him for any judgment that might be obtained in said suit against the defendant if the plaintiff would execute and deliver to the defendant a bond to indemnify or secure him for
Judgment affirmed.