Knox v. Work
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
HjHHIS was an action of trespass for breaking and entering the plaintiff’s house, and committing an assault and battery upon him. Upon the trial at an adjourned court in January last, the jury found a verdict against Work and Link, two of the defendants, 100 dollars damages, and not guilty as to the others.
1Opinion of the Court
Rush, President,
Before we go into this question, we shall refer to an opinion given by the president of this court at Easton 1792. (His Honour here read the note of Aubel v. Ealer (a).
*583We believe it to be impossible to find an instance of a new trial granted in a court of law, to let in evidence discovered after the trial, except in the case of the coachmaker’s bill, in *584Broadhead v. Marshall, 2 W. Black. 955., the circumstances of which were very particular. The defendant was an executor,- in the next place he was in the West Indies at the trial; *585in the third place, the paper was not in the…
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