Van Storch v. Griffin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county: No. 358, to January Term 1872. This was an action on the case brought August 16th 1869, by Adelia Griffin against William Yan Storch.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county: No. 358, to January Term 1872. This was an action on the case brought August 16th 1869, by Adelia Griffin against William Yan Storch. The plaintiff declared in assumpsit that she and the plaintiff had mutually agreed and promised that they would many, and from the time of the promise the plaintiff had been ready to perform her promise, that the defendant although requested had not kept his promise, but had refused to marry the plaintiff. The plaintiff had been previously married to Frederick Hancock, from whom she had been divorced in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Williams, J.
The record of the divorce obtained by the plaintiff’s husband in the Supreme Court in New York, offered in evidence by the defendant, was clearly inadmissible. It was not certified as directed by the Act of Congress of the 26th of May 1790, nor was it proved as a foreign record by other evidence. The act provides that the records and judicial proceedings of every state shall be proved or admitted in any other court of the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, *244if there be a seal, together with a…
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