Stone v. Rogers
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 31, Jan. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Susquehanna Co., April T., 1898, No. 346, refusing to take off nonsuit, in case of Lory Stone v. George B. Rogers. Replevin to recover forty-three sheep. Before Searle, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was the order of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The plaintiff brought an action of replevin to recover possession of forty-three sheep, being the increment of five sheep, which were delivered by the plaintiff’s grandfather, Lory Stone, Sr., to Orlando Stone, an uncle of plaintiff, forty-one years before the trial, and under an alleged written agreement which provided that Orlando Stone should take the sheep to double every five years and deliver the same or the proper number to Lory Stone, when he, this plaintiff, should arrive at the age of twenty-one years. When Orlando Stone died in 1896, Geo. B. Rogers was his…
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