Pierce v. McKeehan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to tbe Common Pleas of Cumberland county. June 7 and 8. Andrew Pierce, for the use of A. D. McBride and John McClay, his assignees, now for the use of E. Bradford Todd, assignee of said Andrew, plaintiff in error and plaintiff below, against ’ Robert McKeehan. This case was before the court on a former occasion, and is reported in 3 Watts & Serg. 280, where all the material facts are so fully stated, that a statement of them here is deemed unnecessary.
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Error, to tbe Common Pleas of Cumberland county. June 7 and 8. Andrew Pierce, for the use of A. D. McBride and John McClay, his assignees, now for the use of E. Bradford Todd, assignee of said Andrew, plaintiff in error and plaintiff below, against ’ Robert McKeehan. This case was before the court on a former occasion, and is reported in 3 Watts & Serg. 280, where all the material facts are so fully stated, that a statement of them here is deemed unnecessary. The controversy in the court below was between the assignees of Andrew Pierce and the trustee of Joseph Pierce; and the question was,…
1Opinion of the CourtGibson, C. J.
In the Harrisburg Bank v. Tyler, 3 Watts & Serg. 373, the declarations of a' deceased person, that he had invested certain trust moneys in stock for his children, were held to be admissible, on the ground, that the sacrifice of his interest involved in them was an equivalent for his oath. And in Gibblehouse v. Stong, 3 Rawle, 437, a kindred principle was carried still further, by admitting the declarations of one who had held the legal *140title to land, that he was a trustee for another, who had paid the purchase money, on the ground that the admissions of a grantor, when in possession, are not…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Gibblehouse v. StongSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1832
- Harrisburg Bank v. TylerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1842
- Bury v. HartmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1818
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- Davis v. Davis, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lawrence County1954