Legal Opinion

McCurdy & Stevenson v. Canning

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 10, 1870PublishedCited by 38 opinions

Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. No. 180, to July Term 1868. This was an action of ejectment, commenced December 2d 1865, by John K. McCurdy and Hugh Stevenson against Robert Canning and Eliza Canning, his wife, for a house and lot of ground in Philadelphia.

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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. No. 180, to July Term 1868. This was an action of ejectment, commenced December 2d 1865, by John K. McCurdy and Hugh Stevenson against Robert Canning and Eliza Canning, his wife, for a house and lot of ground in Philadelphia. On the 20th of August 1855, one Patterson conveyed the premises in question to the defendants, “ their heirs and assigns” : —the habendum of the deed was: “ To have and to hold the said three-story brick building and lot or piece of ground and the hereditaments and premises hereby granted or mentioned and intended so to be…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered,

by Read, J.

— We affirm this judgment for the reasons so well assigned by the learned judge (Judge Thayer), in his able opinion in the court below.

2Cited by38 opinions

  1. Madden v. Glosztonyi Savings & Trust Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  2. Beihl v. MartinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
  3. O'Malley v. O'MalleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1922
  4. Gasner v. PierceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
  5. C. I. T. Corporation v. FlintSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1939

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