Pratt v. Pratt

(dissenting) — To an understanding of the questions decided in the foregoing opinion, I think a more full statement of the facts than is made therein will be helpful. As indicated in the opinion, the cause is here upon an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant, entered in the court below after a demurrer had been sustained to the plaintiff’s complaint. The facts, therefore, are found in the complaint. In substance they are these: The appellant and one Foss E. Pratt were father and son. In the midsummer of 1900, the younger Pratt, then desirous of taking up the study of medicine and…