Burd v. Lessee of Dansdale
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. V Ta writ of error to the Common Pleas of Bedford ' county, the case was thus: Dans dale, tbe plaintiff below, brought an ejectment to April term 1805, for 150 acres of land in the township of ‘ Dublin, to which he proved the following title. John Burd the elder was in his life time entitled to the . ... e „ ,, , m question, by virtue of an improvement. He died jn tPg year 1792 having by his will devised the same to Eli-* zabeth Walker his grand daughter in fee.
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IN ERROR. V Ta writ of error to the Common Pleas of Bedford ' county, the case was thus: Dans dale, tbe plaintiff below, brought an ejectment to April term 1805, for 150 acres of land in the township of ‘ Dublin, to which he proved the following title. John Burd the elder was in his life time entitled to the . ... e „ ,, , m question, by virtue of an improvement. He died jn tPg year 1792 having by his will devised the same to Eli-* zabeth Walker his grand daughter in fee. Elizabeth Walker, jn tjje year 1797 intermarried with Charles Sipes who had, . , ■*. issue by her; and m August 1797,…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
Delivered the Court’s opinion.
This is a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bedford county.. In the course of the trial the defendant took exceptions to the opinion of the Court, respecting the admission of some testimony, and respecting several points of law mentioned in the judge’s charge to the jury. To understand these exceptions; it is necessary to state some of the evidence inserted in the record.
[Here the Chief Justice stated the evidence.]
1. The first exception to the Court’s opinion, was that the plaintiff below was permitted to give in evidence the…
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