Legal Opinion

Fidelity Insurance Company's Appeal

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided February 23, 1880PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1879, No. 141. Appeal by the Fidelity Insurance, Trust and Safe Deposit Company from a decree setting aside a decree of divorce in a proceeding wherein James V. Peterson was the libellant and Sarah Peterson the respondent.

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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1879, No. 141. Appeal by the Fidelity Insurance, Trust and Safe Deposit Company from a decree setting aside a decree of divorce in a proceeding wherein James V. Peterson was the libellant and Sarah Peterson the respondent. On the 9th of February 1878, Sarah Peterson filed a petition in the Court of Common Pleas which set forth that the petitioner is the widow of James V. Peterson, who recently committed suicide by jumping from a steamboat; that she was married on the 22d of September 1849, at Flemington, New…

1Opinion of the Court

The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered, March 8th 1880,

2Per curiam

We have examined with care the evidence in this case, and concur entirely in the opinion delivered by the learned judge in the court below.

Decree affirmed, and appeal dismissed at the cost of appellant.

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Nixon v. NixonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  2. Mintz v. MintzSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
  3. Carey v. CareySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
  4. Given v. GivenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
  5. Fleming v. FlemingSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1923

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