Freeman v. . Dwiggins

We have not had much difficulty in coming to the conclusion that the plaintiff is entitled to some relief, hut have not found it so easy to determine what that relief should he. It is very certain, that at, and for some months before the time when the plaintiff contracted for the purchase of the defendant Dwiggins’ store, the former had become an habitual drunkard, which had produced its usual effects, upon both his body and his mind. To what extent it had impaired the latter the witnesses do not agree. Most of those examined for the plaintiff testify that, in their opinion, the plaintiff…