Hood v. Hood
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe District Court of Allegheny county. This was a second ejectment, brought by Eliza Hood, acting executrix of John M. Hood, of Philadelphia, deceased, against Mary Hood, et al., heirs-at-law of M‘Clelland Hood, deceased, for a tract of land known as “ Safe Landing,” situated in Ohio township, Allegheny county, containing 226 acres. The judgment for defendants, rendered in the former trial, was affirmed by. the Supreme Court.
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Error to tbe District Court of Allegheny county. This was a second ejectment, brought by Eliza Hood, acting executrix of John M. Hood, of Philadelphia, deceased, against Mary Hood, et al., heirs-at-law of M‘Clelland Hood, deceased, for a tract of land known as “ Safe Landing,” situated in Ohio township, Allegheny county, containing 226 acres. The judgment for defendants, rendered in the former trial, was affirmed by. the Supreme Court. See 1 Casey, 417. John M. Hood and McClelland Hood, were brothers. Plaintiff showed a regular chain of title in John M. Hood, as early as 1808, and offered his…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Church, J.
— The court below very properly ruled adversely to the alleged trust. The evidence was clearly insufficient to support that character of defence. Hence the only questions in this corn-t, arise out of the charge to the jury, touching the title set up under the Statute of Limitations, and upon the exceptions taken by the plaintiff to evidence admitted in the trial, on the same subject. These latter will be discussed first.
The portions of the deposition of Richardson, considered inadmissible, relate specially to the question of trust, but the…
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