47 Pa. 534 | Pa. | 1864
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
If we pay any regard to our oft-repeated decisions, there is no ground for reversal in this case.
The declarations of a parent may admit the filial devotion and real worth of his child; and the profit he derives from her services. They may reach farther and disclose his own sense of obligation, and his settled purpose to compensate. But all this
The judgment is affirmed.