Carskadden v. Poorman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Clinton county. Peter Poorman against James Carskadden, Esquire. This was an action of debt to recover from the defendant the penalty of 50 pounds, for marrying the minor son of the plaintiff.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Clinton county. Peter Poorman against James Carskadden, Esquire. This was an action of debt to recover from the defendant the penalty of 50 pounds, for marrying the minor son of the plaintiff. After the plaintiff had offered in evidence the notice which the law requires with proof of the service of it upon the justice before suit brought, the defendant objected to it on the ground, that the copy served was not a true copy of the notice offered, because the word “ one” in the sentence he being under the age of twenty-one years,” was omitted. But the court overruled…
1Opinion of the Court
*84The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
The plaintiff assigns as error, the admission of the testimony, in the several bills of exception, and the charge of the court. As to the latter, it must be disregarded, as the general errors without a specification of the points relied on, give no information to the adverse party.
This was an action to recover the penalty of 50 pounds from the defendant, the plaintiff in error, who was a justice of the peace, for marrying the son of the plaintiff, who was a minor, without the consent of the father. To prove that the son was a minor, which was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Rodebaugh v. SanksSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1833
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