Higgins & Courtney v. Bloch

The location of the defendants’ business is Government street, at its intersection with Scott. The references to death by appellees’ counsel may well be reproduced here. They are:

“The literature of all the ages shows that as a race we fear death, we abhor it, we shrink from it, we hide it from our sight; the heart of every normal human being knows this and need not be told it, nor testimony produced to prove it; the courts declare it to be a fact of common knowledge. Nearly 4,000 years ago Abraham, in purchasing a burying ground from the children of Heth, stated to them that he wanted it,…