Wolf's Case
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 423, Jan. T., 1899, by Mary Brink, from order of C. P. Luzerne Co., Oct. T., 1898, No. 1163, striking off traverse to inquisition in the matter of Solomon Wolf, an alleged lunatic. Traverse of inquisition in lunacy. From the record it appeared that on September 21, 1898, a petition in lunacy was filed against Solomon Wolf. On October 10, an inquisition was filed finding that Wolf was then, and had been for twenty years, a lunatic without lucid intervals.
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Appeal, No. 423, Jan. T., 1899, by Mary Brink, from order of C. P. Luzerne Co., Oct. T., 1898, No. 1163, striking off traverse to inquisition in the matter of Solomon Wolf, an alleged lunatic. Traverse of inquisition in lunacy. From the record it appeared that on September 21, 1898, a petition in lunacy was filed against Solomon Wolf. On October 10, an inquisition was filed finding that Wolf was then, and had been for twenty years, a lunatic without lucid intervals. On November 21, Mary Brink had brought a civil action against Wolf, per quod servitium amisit, for the seduction of her minor…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
We are clearly of the opinion that the right to traverse an inquisition of lunacy which is confined to “ persons aggrieved ” by the terms of our Act of May 8,1874, P. L. 122, Purd. D. 1272,. pi. 16, includes only persons related to the lunatic by blood or marriage, and persons having an interest in his estate. The' very point was ruled by the prerogative court of New Jersey in Rorback v. Van Blarcom, 5 C. E. Green (N. J.), 461, under a provision of the constitution of that state which contains similar language to our own law of 1874. This conclusion is strongly fortified by the…
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