Case ID: johns-cas_2/html/0407-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Graham against Adams and Adams.
    Where the defendant in a cause is sentenced to the state prison for Ufe, he is considered as civilly dead, and the suit is abated.
    The defendants in this cause having both been sentenced to the state prison/or life, the court decided that they were to be considered as civilly dead, and that the suit had therefore abated.
    Judgment for the defendants.()
    
      
      
        (b) See Co. Litt. 130, a. 3 Inst. 215. 4 Blacks. Comm. 332. 4 Vin. Ah. 152. Wood’s Inst. Code Civ. art. 22 a 25. Platner v. Sherwood, 6 Johns. Ch. Rep. 118. Troup v. Wood and Sherwood, 4 id. 228, 247, 248.