Janes's Estate
Citations
- 147 Pa. 527
- 23 A. 892
- 1892 Pa. LEXIS 885
Syllabus
<p>Evidence — Illegitimates—Non-access—Husband and wife.</p> <p>While a husband and wife are incompetent witnesses to prove the fact of non-access while they lived together, they are competent to testify in cases between third parties as to the time of their own marriage, the time of a child’s birth, and any other independent facts affecting the question of legitimacy.</p> <p>Presumption — Putative father.</p> <p>There is no presumption that the man who marries the mother of a bastard child is the father of it.</p>
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- “[A] health provider is charged with knowledge of applicable [health care] regulations.”
- charging a health care provider with knowledge of relevant regulations
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Judges: McCollum, Mitchell, Paxson, Sterbeit, Williams
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