Hetrick's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin county: In Equity: Of May Term 1868, No. 92. This was a bill filed May 7th 1867, by Jacob Hetrick against George Smith and Elizabeth Smith his wife. The bill set out that the plaintiff was in the eighty-sixth year of his age, “infirm in body and feeble and weak in mind.
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Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin county: In Equity: Of May Term 1868, No. 92. This was a bill filed May 7th 1867, by Jacob Hetrick against George Smith and Elizabeth Smith his wife. The bill set out that the plaintiff was in the eighty-sixth year of his age, “infirm in body and feeble and weak in mind. His wife recently died, leaving him alone and helpless, in great distress, without proper friends or advisers he owned in fee a house and lot in Chambersburg, worth $600; the defendants, “taking advantage of his imbecility and distress of mind, and lonely and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 20th 1868, by
Agnew, J.
Perhaps there is no more pitiable object than a very old man, broken by the weight of years, crushed by his last and greatest sorrow, and standing alone in the world without a hand to help. Too enfeebled in mind and body to be watchful or to penetrate the probabilities of his situation and the designs of others, he is ready to cast himself into the arms of those who approach him with a view to benefit themselves by the property he has. When such a man makes a bargain with an unsuitable or an insolvent man, and puts all into his…
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