McCracken's Case
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 53, Oct. T., 1910, by Mary A. McCracken et al., from order of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1908, No. 2,605, in the matter of David McCracken, an alleged lunatic. Inquisition in lunacy. Error assigned was the action of the court on the exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Ferguson, J.,
filed the following opinion:
In this case the inquisition was filed March 4, 1909, in which there was a finding that from March, 1908, until November, 1908, David McCracken was a lunatic; that during that time he had lucid intervals, and that at the time of the filing of the inquisition he had fully recovered his mental health and was not a lunatic. On March 26, 1909, a petition was filed by Emma Putman, one of the petitioners for the commission de lunático inquirendo, in which she prayed that a rule be granted on the said David McCracken to show cause why he should not pay the…
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