Tritt v. Crotzer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Cumberland county. This was an action on the case, by Crotzer and Elizabeth, his wife, and Howard Smith, by his next friend, Crotzer, vs. Tritt.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Cumberland county. This was an action on the case, by Crotzer and Elizabeth, his wife, and Howard Smith, by his next friend, Crotzer, vs. Tritt. It was alleged, in the declaration, that Tritt had received from a certain Nicholas Howard, in his life time, certain moneys, notes, bonds, mortgages and other securities for money, for the nse and benefit of Elizabeth Smith (now Crotzer) and Howard Smith, and to be transferred, assigned and delivered to them, by Tritt, at the decease of said Nicholas Howard. Evidence was given that Nicholas Howard had said, in 1847, that…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Coulter, J.
The moral aspect of this case is unfriendly to • the plaintiff in error : so much so that his able and amiable counsel was constrained earnestly to invoke the cold and freezing point of the court’s judgment.
■ But neither Judges as frigid as iron or ice, nor the judicial atmosphere of Nova Zembla, would save them.
*455■ 'For there are cases in' which the law is portrayed by a daguerereotype from nature and feeling, and approved by the impulses of a sound conscience : and does not result from abstractions of positive institute found and established…
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