Jaques v. Weeks
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
WRIT of error to tbe common pleas of Tioga county. This was an action of ejectment by Samuel C. Jaques against Samuel Weeks and Lewis Saynisch for two hundred and eighteen acres of land, the original title to which the parties admitted to have been regularly vested in John H. Knapp.
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WRIT of error to tbe common pleas of Tioga county. This was an action of ejectment by Samuel C. Jaques against Samuel Weeks and Lewis Saynisch for two hundred and eighteen acres of land, the original title to which the parties admitted to have been regularly vested in John H. Knapp. The plaintiff gave in evidence a deed from John H. Knapp and wife to Asbury Crocheron forseven-eighlh partsof the land in dispute, dated 7th April 1829, and recorded 20th July 1829, and a deed from Asbury Crocheron and wife to himself Samuel C. Jaques, dated 20th June 1831, and recorded on the 11th November 1831.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
On the trial of this cause the defendant offered a paper dated the 17th of April 1829, called a deed of defeasance from Asbury Crocheron to John H. Knapp, which was proved by the oath of John H. Stephenson, the subscribing witness, before Thomas M’Elrath, commissioner for Pennsylvania in the state of New York. The plaintiff objected to it, on the ground that the instrument was not proved according to law; but the court overruled the objections, and sealed a bill of exceptions.
The certificate of the commissioner is given under his hand…
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