Hill v. Williams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Error to the Common Pleas of Susquehanna county. On the trial of this cause, in the court below, several bills of exceptions were tendered by the counsel for the defendant below, the plaintiff'in error, to the opinion of the■ court, in permitting the plaintiff to amend his declaration, in the rejection of testimony offered by the defendant below, in refusing to permit the defendant to amend his pleas, and in the answer given to a question of law submitted for…
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IN ERROR. Error to the Common Pleas of Susquehanna county. On the trial of this cause, in the court below, several bills of exceptions were tendered by the counsel for the defendant below, the plaintiff'in error, to the opinion of the■ court, in permitting the plaintiff to amend his declaration, in the rejection of testimony offered by the defendant below, in refusing to permit the defendant to amend his pleas, and in the answer given to a question of law submitted for their- opinion, by the counsel for the defendant. but the court having decided one point only, which is fully stated and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tilghman, C. J.
This is an -action of debt, brought by John Williams., the plaintiff below and defendant in error, against James Jl. Hill, a justice of the peace for the county of Susquehanna, for the penalty of fifty pounds, for marrying his son, an infant, called Palmer Williams, to a certain Electa Nickerson, without the *288knowledge or consent of the plaintiff, contrary to the act of assembly, entitled, “A supplement to the act for the préventing clandestine marriages,” passed the 14th of February, 1729-30, 1 Sm. L. 180. The fact was, that both Palmer…
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