Heslop v. Heslop
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 41. In this action Alice Heslop counted against Mary Heslop and Joseph Heslop for dower in the real estate of Joseph Heslop, Sr., deceased.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 41. In this action Alice Heslop counted against Mary Heslop and Joseph Heslop for dower in the real estate of Joseph Heslop, Sr., deceased. The demandant, Alice Heslop, averred that she was married to Joseph Heslop, Sr., the deceased, in the year 1828, in England; and it was in evidence that about that time, in that country, the demandant and deceased lived together as man and wife for three or four years; that from England they went to Scotland, taking with them a daughter who had been born to them,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
delivered the-opinion of the court, January 2d 1877.
In the charge to the jury the court instructed them that “ where a party in a cause attempts to manufacture testimony, the jury are justified and warranted in presuming that his case is not well founded.” This instruction is the subject of the third-assignment of error. While the testimony offered on behalf of a party whom the jury find to have tampered with witnesses should be carefully *540and even suspiciously scrutinized, yet that testimony is not to be utterly disregarded and set aside, and the verdict be left to rest on a presumption…
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