Rhodes v. Childs
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Montour county: No. 3, of October Term 1869. This was an action of assumpsit, brought July 4th 1868, by B. K. Rhodes and J. C. Rhodes, administrators, &c., of John Childs, deceased, against Charles W. Childs. The suit was to recover the amount of a check for $2824.50, drawn by John Snyder in favor of the decedent, which, the plaintiffs alleged, had been received by the defendant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Montour county: No. 3, of October Term 1869. This was an action of assumpsit, brought July 4th 1868, by B. K. Rhodes and J. C. Rhodes, administrators, &c., of John Childs, deceased, against Charles W. Childs. The suit was to recover the amount of a check for $2824.50, drawn by John Snyder in favor of the decedent, which, the plaintiffs alleged, had been received by the defendant. The defendant was the illegitimate son of a sister of the decedent; his mother was dead; he had been brought up and maintained from an early age by the decedent who was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Thompson, C. J.
— The 1st, 2d and 3d errors are assigned upon *22bills of exception to tbe rejection of offers of testimony by the plaintiffs below. The object of the plaintiffs in error in these offers, it is said in argument, was to bring before the court and jury a full and detailed statement of all that took place between the administrators and the defendant at the time of taking the inventory, and when the former was demanding of the latter the production of all the personal property of the intestate in his possession. Their object was one thing, and…
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