Adams v. Nicholas
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
THIS was an action of trover tried before Stroud, J. The verdict was for the plaintiff. The defendant moved for a new trial, which motion was argued by The facts are fully set forth in the opinions of the judges, which are placed in the order best calculated to present the history of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtStroud, J.
The essential facts of tills case are these; Moses Holmes, the plaintiff’s testator, died on the 1st of November 1832. His disease, by common observers, was supposed to be pulmonary consumption. A physician who visited him once, and whose sole *91object was to ascertain the state of his mind, considered him as labouring under a complication of diseases, one of which was coíít-sumption, another a tracheal paralysis, which deprived him wholly of the use of speech. His sickness, from whatever diseases it may have arisen, was of long continuance, according to the testimony generally, The plaintiff…
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