Gold v. Scott
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 63, April T., 1897, by-defendants, from judgment of C. P. Butler Co., Sept'. T„ 1896, No. 132, on verdict for plaintiff. Ejectment. Before Greer, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of tbe court. Verdict for plaintiff. Defendants appealed.
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Appeal, No. 63, April T., 1897, by-defendants, from judgment of C. P. Butler Co., Sept'. T„ 1896, No. 132, on verdict for plaintiff. Ejectment. Before Greer, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of tbe court. Verdict for plaintiff. Defendants appealed. Errors assigned were (1) In overruling the defendants’ objection to Charles Duffy, the assignee of David Scott and Margaretta Scott for the land in controversy, testifying as to declarations made by him during the lifetime of David Scott, now deceased; in permitting said Duffy to testify and in receiving said declarations as…
1Opinion of the Court
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Wickham, J.,. Margaretta Scott, one of the defendants, owned a tract of land, shaped somewhat like a parallelogram, situate in Oakland township, Butler county. We gather from the evidence that prior to the year 1881 she sold fifteen acres off the east end thereof to two several grantees, the pieces so disposed of containing six and nine acres respectively, and being together bounded, on the west by a line running nearly north and south across the tract and precisely eighty rods long.
Mrs. Scott by deed dated June 2, 1881, wherein her husband David Scott joined, conveyed by courses…
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