Whitaker v. Richmon
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 130, October T., 1919, by plaintiff, from order of Municipal Court of Philadelphia, October T., 1918, No. 167, making absolute rule for judgment for want of a sufficient statement of claim in the case of Clara G. Whitaker v. Viola Richmon. Rule for judgment for want of a sufficient statement. Before Cassidy, J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. The court made absolute the rule. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was the order of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Keller, J.,
The defendant kept a boarding house in the City of Philadelphia. The plaintiff was one of her boarders. On or about August 17, 1918, the plaintiff missed from her belongings a diamond ring of the value of $140, under circumstances which, she alleged, tended to show that the ring had been feloniously taken by some person in the boarding house. On the same day she notified the defendant of the loss of the ring and the defendant thereupon orally agreed with the plaintiff that if the latter would refrain from calling in detectives, she, the defendant would reimburse the…
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