Thomas v. Miller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 35, Oct. T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Armstrong Co., Dec. T., 1890, No. 73, on verdict for defendant. Issue to determine the validity of a judgment entered on a judgment note. Before Raybubn, P. J. • At the trial it appeared that plaintiff was a niece of Richard Elliott, deceased. Plaintiff claimed that the note upon which judgment was entered, had been given to her in payment for services.
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Appeal, No. 35, Oct. T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Armstrong Co., Dec. T., 1890, No. 73, on verdict for defendant. Issue to determine the validity of a judgment entered on a judgment note. Before Raybubn, P. J. • At the trial it appeared that plaintiff was a niece of Richard Elliott, deceased. Plaintiff claimed that the note upon which judgment was entered, had been given to her in payment for services. Defendant claimed that the signature to the note had been forged. Samuel Thomas, a witness for plaintiff, testified that the note was taken by decedent from a drawer in a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Gbeen,
The first four assignments of error raise but one question which is common to all. The plaintiff was offered1 to testify *220on her own behalf in contradiction of certain witnesses who had testified for the defendant. The subject-matter of the testimony offered was proof that certain existing states of fact, such as whether a room had been used as a bedroom, what furniture was contained in a room, that the witness had acted as a nurse for Richard Elliott during a certain time, and that after the death of Mrs. Elliott the room in which she died was renovated and the…
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