Bruner v. Finley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 192, Jan. T., 1904, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1903, No. 333, making absolute rule to quash writ of ejectment in ease of Meta N. Bruner v. Annie B. Finley et. al. Ejectment for land in the city of Philadelphia. Before Biddle, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was order making absolute rule to quash writ of ejectment.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb,. Justice Mestrezat,
The syllabus of the official report of the case of Rosenberg v. Mencke, 208 Pa. 331, is at least partly responsible for the error of the court below in quashing this writ. The last sentence of the syllabus is misleading and a misstatement of what was decided in the case. Two ejectments were brought for the land in controversy in that case. The first action was by Mencke against Rosenberg in which there was a judgment in the trial court for the defendant. On appeal to this court, the judgment was reversed and a new venire awarded: 202 Pa. 131. When the case was…
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- Bruner v. FinleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
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