Carpenter v. United States Life Ins.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 385, Jan. T., 1894, by plaintiff, Adaline Carpenter, from judgment of C. P. Lycoming Co., Dec. T., 1893, entering nonsuit. Assumpsit on policy of life insurance, assigned to plaintiff. Before Albright, P. J., of the 31st district, specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 385, Jan. T., 1894, by plaintiff, Adaline Carpenter, from judgment of C. P. Lycoming Co., Dec. T., 1893, entering nonsuit. Assumpsit on policy of life insurance, assigned to plaintiff. Before Albright, P. J., of the 31st district, specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned were (1, 2) rulings on evidence, quoting bills of exceptions and evidence, partly reviewed in the opinion of the Supreme Court; (3) refusal to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Alanson JB. Tyrell, a man about sixty years of age, living with his family near Wilkes-Barre, had in his house, as a domestic, a poor girl named Adaline Carpenter. So far as appears from the evidence, prompted solely by a benevolent and kindly disposition, this old man befriended this girl; sent her to school and paid her expenses; in return, she at times, for small wages, performed some services for him, such as keeping his books and copying his letters; he was a designer and builder of coal breakers, and seems to have had considerable business. On the 10th of…
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