Patty v. Edelin
This text of 18 F. Cas. 1344 (Patty v. Edelin) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
was of opinion that the plaintiff [Negro Patty] was not obliged to join in demurrer, unless the defendant [Edward Edelin], would admit those facts which the jury might reasonably infer from the testimony. But that if such a demurrer, stating the testimony of facts, and not the facts themselves, be joined, then the-court are bound to infer, against the party demurring, every fact which a jury might reasonably have inferred from the testimony so stated.
[1345]*1345THE COURT refused to compel the plaintiff to Join in demurrer, unless the defendant would admit that he hired the plaintiff to Henry Lyles; a fact which they thought the jury might reasonably infer from the testimony.
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