Bensell v. Chancellor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the record of an action of ejectment brought by Charles Edward Bensell, E. S. Bensell, and George A. Bensell against Wharton Chancellor, to recover a certain/messuage and lot of land, situate in the county of Philadelphia.
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IN ERROR. Error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the record of an action of ejectment brought by Charles Edward Bensell, E. S. Bensell, and George A. Bensell against Wharton Chancellor, to recover a certain/messuage and lot of land, situate in the county of Philadelphia. On the trial, before Pettit, Pres’t, on the 28th of May, 1839, the plaintiff’s counsel gave in evidence that- a certain Engle Bensell being seised in his demesne as of fee, of the premises, made and published his last will arid testament, on the 26th day of March, 1799, whereof he…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
The petition of Dr. Bensell to have his principal removed for mental incapacity, his agreement to pay for his maintenance as an insane patient in the Pennsylvania Hospital, his memoranda of a conversation with the deputy register, and his unfinished draught of a letter, are all evincive of an opinion that his principal was insane. But what has his opinion to do with the question whether he was actually sol We know that admissions by an agent in the course of the business, are evidence to charge the principal, because, in conterhplation of…
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