Hatzfield v. Gulden
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Berks county. This was an action of assumpsit by Daniel Gulden against Adolph Hatzfield, to recover from the defendant the sum of 1000 dollars as a compensation to the plaintiff for procuring a pardon for the defendant, who had been convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced. The court below was of opinion that the law did not forbid a. recovery by the plaintiff, if the jury believed he was otherwise entitled to recover.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
D. G. Gulden was plaintiff below and brought case in assumpsit against Hatzfield. The declaration consisted of three counts. The first set out that Hatzfield had been indicted in the court of oyer and terminer of Berks county, and tried, and a verdict of guilty, and sentenced to confinement for twelve years. This was all set out at large, and sentence in full and the dates. And that in pursuance of the said sentence, the said Hatzfield was in confinement in the Eastern Penitentiary in the county of Philadelphia, and on the day of at said…
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