Campbell v. Kuhn

The court below, after hearing the evidence, directed a verdict for defendant, and the general question is whether the plaintiff is entitled to complain of this ruling.

Margaret Hack otherwise called Margaret Taufkirch died in March, 1870, and the plaintiff was appointed administrator in August, 1880. As shown by his testimony the plaintiff’s case presents in substance the following state of facts.

*515In 1863 decedent placed $1276 in defendant’s hands and received his note therefor; that she drew the amount down to $910; that in the summer of 1868 she fell into a state of dementia bordering on…