Sayers v. Hoskinson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Gfreene county: Of October and November Term 1885, No. 9. Case by William W. Sayers, Perry A. Bayard and Ann C, Bayard, his wife, in right of said Ann C. Bayard and Ezra M. Sayers, who are the reversioners of a tract of land containing about two hundred acres, situate in said county, against Elizabeth Hoskinson, who was the widow of E. Sealey Sayers, deceased, and her husband, Robert Hoskinson, to recover damages for waste alleged to…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Gfreene county: Of October and November Term 1885, No. 9. Case by William W. Sayers, Perry A. Bayard and Ann C, Bayard, his wife, in right of said Ann C. Bayard and Ezra M. Sayers, who are the reversioners of a tract of land containing about two hundred acres, situate in said county, against Elizabeth Hoskinson, who was the widow of E. Sealey Sayers, deceased, and her husband, Robert Hoskinson, to recover damages for waste alleged to have been committed by the defendants to their inheritance in mining coal, quarrying limestone and freestone and in cutting…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
This action was brought by the reversioners against the tenants for life to recover damages for certain acts of waste committed or suffered by the latter. The alleged waste consisted of mining coal, quarrying limestone and freestone, and cutting timber and other trees. The matter of the coai was ■abandoned below, and was not pressed here. And the contest for the limestone and freestone might as well have been abandoned, as the jury found for the defendants upon evidence which they could not well have disregarded, and under instructions from the court which were free from error. It was very…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hastings v. CrunckletonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1801
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