Watson v. Brewster
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. Error to the District Court of Alleghany county. In the court below, Lot E. Brewster, the defendant in error, was the plaintiff, and George Watson and Sarah Ann his wife, late Sarah Ann Hubley, the defendants.
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In Error. Error to the District Court of Alleghany county. In the court below, Lot E. Brewster, the defendant in error, was the plaintiff, and George Watson and Sarah Ann his wife, late Sarah Ann Hubley, the defendants. All the material facts in this case, necessary to elucidate the points decided here, as well as the several bills of exceptions taken, by the counsel of the defendants, to the admission and rejection of evidence and to the charge of the court, are sufficiently stated and referred to in the opinion of this court. The court below (Grier, President) submitted this case to the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
This is an action against husband and wife, for a debt contracted by the wife when sole. The pleas are non est factum, infancy, set-off, and the act of limitations.
The plaintiff gave in evidence two depositions taken the 8th July, 1844, to prove the handwriting of Sarah Hubley, now Sarah Watson. He then offered to read other depositions of the same witnesses, taken subsequently, viz., on the 12th October, 1844. The defendants object, that taking a second deposition to contradict a prior one of their own witness, on a point which is the pinch…
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