Leonard v. Leslie
Citations
- 23 Pa. Super. 63
- 1903 Pa. Super. LEXIS 16
Syllabus
<p>Practice, G. P. — Exception—Appeal.</p> <p>Where it does not appear affirmatively from the record that an exception was noted to the charge before verdict, or that the defendant requested before verdict that the charge be reduced to writing from the stenographer’s notes and filed of record, and there is no ground for inferring with any degree of certainty that the proceedings were had before verdict, an appeal based upon them will be quashed.</p>
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- marriage brokerage contracts, although “not fraudulent on either party, are yet void, because they are a. . . public mischief, as they have a tendency to cause matrimony to be contracted on mistaken principles”
- in a case involving the question of whether an heir could contract away his expected inheritance, Chief Justice Parsons, writing for the court, analogized these contracts to marriage brokerage contracts, which he described as void
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Judges: Beaver, Henderson, Morrison, Orlady, Porter, Rice, Smith
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