Dougherty v. Snyder
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This case was tried before Duncan, J., at Nisi Prius, and a Verdict rendered in favour of the plaintiff for nine thousand five hundred dollars, and the jury found assets in the defendant’s hands, amounting to five thousand, one hundred, and twenty dollars: The defendant now obtained a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted, and filed the following reasons:— 1. Because the plaintiff was permitted to prove, by parol testimony, the law of Louisiana in 1791,…
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This case was tried before Duncan, J., at Nisi Prius, and a Verdict rendered in favour of the plaintiff for nine thousand five hundred dollars, and the jury found assets in the defendant’s hands, amounting to five thousand, one hundred, and twenty dollars: The defendant now obtained a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted, and filed the following reasons:— 1. Because the plaintiff was permitted to prove, by parol testimony, the law of Louisiana in 1791, then a Spanish province, in relation to contracts made between husband and wife, without first showing such law to be the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J.
This is a brief outline of the cause of action. The plaintiff, a widow lady resident in New Orleans, possessed of considerable real and personal estate, interrnarriéd in 1791 with George Dougherty, the testator,—a man then in rather indigent circumstances. He cohabited with her a few months, and in September, 1791, obtained from her seven thousand dollars, for which he gave her the following instrument of writing:—
“ Je soussigné, en presence de témoins, reeonnois avoir regu de ma femme la somme de sept mille piastres qu’elle me confie pour…
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