Burd v. Seabold
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. WRIT of error to the Common Pleas of Union county, in an eiectment brought by John Seabold, the defendant in ■ „ . , „ 7- •! 7 n 7, error, against David Burd, junr., with whom David Burd, the elder, was, after the commencement of the action, made a co-defendant, to recover thirty seven acres and . ninety six perches of land, in Buff aloe township.
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In Error. WRIT of error to the Common Pleas of Union county, in an eiectment brought by John Seabold, the defendant in ■ „ . , „ 7- •! 7 n 7, error, against David Burd, junr., with whom David Burd, the elder, was, after the commencement of the action, made a co-defendant, to recover thirty seven acres and . ninety six perches of land, in Buff aloe township. On the trial, several bills of exceptions to evidence were tendered and sealed, and sixteen points submitted by the defendants’ counsel, to the Court, upon which, in addition to their general charge, they delivered their opinion to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Duncan J.,
delivered the opinion of the Coart.
On the trial of this cause, exception was taken to the opinion of the Court, in receiving in evidence, drafts of a suryey found jn fog office of the surveyor of the district, purporting to be made for Daniel Weiss, under whom the plaintiff below, the defendant in error, claimed, on his warrant in the name of John Johnson, by John Hays, for the proper deputy, and a survey returned thereon, by the surveyor of the district, and a patent. The survey returned, stated, that it had been made by John Hays, for the proper deputy. The evidence of Hays’s…
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