Adams v. Edwards
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, of Philadelphia County: Of July Term, 1886, No, 713. This was an action of ejectment brought by Mary Edwards, Elizabeth Davis, Alfred Hore, Mary Ann .Hore by their attorney in fact, Edward F. Hoffman, and William Henry, Daniel and Edith Hore by their guardian, Bores Penrose, against Thomas Adams and Lydia Pendergast, to recover possession of a lot of land in Germantown.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, of Philadelphia County: Of July Term, 1886, No, 713. This was an action of ejectment brought by Mary Edwards, Elizabeth Davis, Alfred Hore, Mary Ann .Hore by their attorney in fact, Edward F. Hoffman, and William Henry, Daniel and Edith Hore by their guardian, Bores Penrose, against Thomas Adams and Lydia Pendergast, to recover possession of a lot of land in Germantown. The plaintiffs claimed to be heirs at law of one Jane Kemp, who died seized of said lot of land. Upon the trial of the cause before Finletter, J., the plaintiffs offered in evidence…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The first, second and sixth assignments of error may be considered together. The first alleges error in admitting in evidence the depositions of Mary Edwards and Elizabeth Davis; 'the second, that the court below erred in not striking out said depositions, and the sixth that the court erred in charging the jury in reference to said depositions as follows: “So far as they speak of relationship existing at the time the witnesses speak, they are evidence in connection with other testimony before you.”
The action was ejectment, and the depositions were offered to prove the relationship of the…
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