Matheis v. Mazet
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 145, Oct. T., 1894, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Dec. T., 1892, No. 648, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass to recover damages for alienation of wife’s affection and for crim. con.
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Appeal, No. 145, Oct. T., 1894, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Dec. T., 1892, No. 648, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass to recover damages for alienation of wife’s affection and for crim. con. Before Stowe, P. J. At the trial the evidence for plaintiff tended to show that defendant seduced plaintiff’s wife, and that on Nov. 19, 1892, defendant and plaintiff’s wife were discovered together in bed in an assignation house, by a detective employed by plaintiff. Defendant testified that he had been solicited by plaintiff’s wife but did not have carnal relations with…
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Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Sterrett,
The first four specifications of error, based on the quotations *584from the learned trial judge’s charge recited therein respectively, can be best considered together in connection with the entire charge. It often happens that excerpta from a charge,— severed as they necessarily must be from other parts thereof and thus presented alone,—may be subject to adverse criticism which is entirely obviated by considering the charge as a whole. To some extent, this is so in the present case.
The facts, which the testimony tended strongly to prove, were of course for…
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