Jacot v. Secrest

In the Court of Common Pleas, the instant case was considered largely upon the question of plaintiff’s alleged fraud in misrepresenting his age. The baptismal certificate, which he gave to the board’s clerk, showed plaintiff to have been baptized in 1890, but in July 1923 plaintiff, in his statement to the State Teachers’ Retirement System, declared that the date of Ms birth was May 13, 1874, and that such statement: was accurate and true to the best of his knowledge and belief. While there was some argumentative dispute as to May 13, 1874, being plaintiff’s birthday, plaintiff stating that…