Rhine v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Common Pleas of Juniata county. This was an action of ejectment brought by Joseph Robinson against Titus Rhine, to recover 200 acres of land in Lack township, Juniata county. The title to the land in dispute together with 200 acres adjoining it, was in 1830 vested in John Moore. In December of that year, he entered into an article of agreement with Joseph Robinson, the father of the plaintiff, and the father-in-law of the defendant, to sell him the entire tract.
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Error to tbe Common Pleas of Juniata county. This was an action of ejectment brought by Joseph Robinson against Titus Rhine, to recover 200 acres of land in Lack township, Juniata county. The title to the land in dispute together with 200 acres adjoining it, was in 1830 vested in John Moore. In December of that year, he entered into an article of agreement with Joseph Robinson, the father of the plaintiff, and the father-in-law of the defendant, to sell him the entire tract. At this time Joseph Robinson and his family were residing on a tract of land which Joseph, the younger, had rented from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lewis, C. J.
The fourth and seventh errors assigned do not appear to be pressed in the argument, and are understood to have been abandoned. As the plaintiff in error says nothing in support of them, and the defendant in error considers them as abandoned, we dismiss them without consideration.
The assignment from “ H. P. Sheller, attorney of John Moore,” ought regularly to have been signed in the name of the principal by his attorney, and the name of the assignee ought to have been stated. It was not good at law, as the execution of a power to sell and…
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