Mish v. Wood
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action of trover by O. T. Wood and Emma A. his wife, for the use of the said Emma A. Wood, against John Mish, for the conversion of five trunks of clothing belonging to Mrs. Wood. On the 13th August 1857, O. T. Wood took boarding for himself and wife at the Perry Hotel, in the’city of Pittsburgh, kept by John Mish, the defendant, at the rate of nine dollars per week.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action of trover by O. T. Wood and Emma A. his wife, for the use of the said Emma A. Wood, against John Mish, for the conversion of five trunks of clothing belonging to Mrs. Wood. On the 13th August 1857, O. T. Wood took boarding for himself and wife at the Perry Hotel, in the’city of Pittsburgh, kept by John Mish, the defendant, at the rate of nine dollars per week. They continued there until about the 10th March 1858, when Mr. Wood, being in arrear $183 for boarding, was notified by Mish that he could remain no longer. Mrs. Wood,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thompson, J.
The assignment of error here is upon the exception to the admission of the witness Eaton, “ to testify his opinion of the value of the goods, mentioned in the plaintiff’s declaration, merely from a knowledge of their kind and quality as detailed in the testimony of plaintiff below — the said witness having previously testified, he had no other knowledge of them.”
The plaintiff herself had testified as to the contents of the trunks, and the value of the articles in them, which the defendant had taken, broken open, and sold at public auction,…
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