Hill v. Canfield
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county: No. 98, to October and November Term 1866. This was an action of trover, brought to December Term 1865, in which George H. Canfield and J. B. Poor were plaintiffs, and Jake Hill, Andrew Jackson, Schuyler Jackson, David Jackson, A. E. Baum and John Carrier were defendants, to recover damages for the conversion of three rafts of timber, containing 16,221 cubic feet.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county: No. 98, to October and November Term 1866. This was an action of trover, brought to December Term 1865, in which George H. Canfield and J. B. Poor were plaintiffs, and Jake Hill, Andrew Jackson, Schuyler Jackson, David Jackson, A. E. Baum and John Carrier were defendants, to recover damages for the conversion of three rafts of timber, containing 16,221 cubic feet. On the trial, before Mellon, A. J., the plaintiffs offered John Shoup as a witness: the defendants required that they should state in advance what they intended to prove by the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 7th 1868, by
Thompson, C. J.
1. A sufficient answer to the 1st and 4th assignments of error in this case is, that the plaintiffs in error, who were defendants below, claimed to hold the property in question under an alleged purchase from the vendors of the plaintiffs below. This was the defendants’ theory, and without they could make it good, their title to the property did not exist. Who were the legal owners under these vendors, was the question when the witnesses were offered. They were competent witnesses for either ; on the defendants’…
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