The New York herald., 1871-03-10
SUPREME CouaT-cIRcUIT.
Summing Up i'm the Hogan VIII Cases
BEFORE Iudua Gnfharland

Summing Up i'm the Hogan VIII Case.
Before Judge Sutherland.
Sarah G. Hatch rs. clara N. PeugRet.-Judge
Pierrepont concluded his summing up to the
Court and jury yesterday afternoon on
behalf OF the plaintiff 1t was listened to
with profound interest by all in the large
court room, which was more crowded than
usual many persons standing in the aises for want
Of seats. He said, in substance, that he had q
theory in regard to this case. and it was that,
after DR.. Hogan's death, Mrs. Peugnet, then Mi So
Clara Hogan. found her sister Sarah and her hus.
band Mr. Hatch, In her way. That it was neces.
sary she should get them out or the house after Dr.,
Hogan g death. That after Mr.. and Mrs, Hatch left
induced her to make will In her favor DR.. Peugnet
being one OF the Witnesses by which che
O s gSfF sss en S Pc
took her mother to Forlham where the latter re.
NAMED until she died. IN 1851 and ali that Ting was
under the influence OF the defendant, Clara peug-
net, and Dr. Peugnat, who was Mrs. Hogans attend.
ing physician. Mrs. Hatch did not see her mother
when Mrs. Hatch and her mother met accidentally
aeaS n de Cs sS ana Maa aiey t9sI aqa until
msr mother During the two years sdna that Mrs Mrs;
secretly little presents to her and her children
through her servants but instructed them not to let
gifts. He contended that Mrs Peugnet exercised
the greatest control over her mother, and that
Dr. PeuIneJ USED MS lunuencc 10 Keep ner from
living In the city with her daughter, Mrs. Hatch
telling Mrs. Hogan that the gas and Croron water
would not agree with her, and that they then In.
duced her to make another will In 1885, leaving all
her estate to Mrs. Peugnet, with a legacy to her
husband. Still Mr.. and Mrs. Peugnet were not sat
isfed. But ten or twelve days before her death
they caused Mrs. Hogan to make a deed of all her
property to her daughter Clara, Dr. Peugnets wife.
This deed was made by Dr. Peugnets lawyer and
only proved ana recorded after her death. This
will was read at the Convent OF the Sacred Heart,
i'll seventeenth street, Mrs. Hatch being told to be
present TO hear 1t read, though her name
was not mentioned in 1t. The exist
ence OF the deed made SO soon before
sister, Mrs. Peugnet, was not spoken Of at that
reading, though known to DR.. Peugnet and his wife
at the time. Judge Pieirepont continued at length,
giving all the circumstances Of Mrs. Hogans
been her mothers little housekeeper since she was
fifteen years OF age, Mrs. Hogan's health having
been delicate and feeble for years. He said there
never was palmer case, and closed with an
the property fairly between the sisters, as the law
would nave divided 1t had there been no will or
deed in existence, which, in this case, he charged
were procured through influence exercised over a
lady sixty years OF age by her daughter Mrs.
Peugnet, and Dr. Peugnet, her husband the latter
being Mrs. H0gan's physician.
Counsel for the defendant followed with lengthy
reJomder combating the theory OF Judge Plerepont.
gan's death an uniriendly feeling existed between
her and the plaintiff causing her name to be omitted
In the WILL and that she disposed OF her property in
way to suit herself, which she had perfect right
to do.
On both sides all the resources of legal learning
bearing on the points at ISSUE all the skin of loren
sic eloquence and all the strategy OF pathetic ad.
dress to tile jury were duly invoked ana exhausted
Judge sutherland Will charge the jury this morn.
Ing.