Heister v. Davis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Debt on seven obligations. Plea, payment. The defence set up, was that' the bonds in question, with six others, were the consideration of certain lands sold by Old to the defendant, free of all incumbrances, with a covenant of warranty in the deed, against Old and his heirs, and all other persons claiming under Edward Hughes, deceased, who died intestate.
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Debt on seven obligations. Plea, payment. The defence set up, was that' the bonds in question, with six others, were the consideration of certain lands sold by Old to the defendant, free of all incumbrances, with a covenant of warranty in the deed, against Old and his heirs, and all other persons claiming under Edward Hughes, deceased, who died intestate. An appraisement of these lands had taken place in the Orphans’ Court, as the property of the said Edward Hughes, and a confirmation thereof to his son James, and 73 7I. 10s. one third part of the appraisement, remained charged on the…
1Per curiam
It is of infinite consequence to suitors, that the trust reposed in professional characters should not be violated. But let our private feelings be as they may, we must take the rules of evidence as our only guides. See 4 Term Rep. 758, 759, 760. In Annesley v. Lord Anglesea, 9 St. Tri. 392, 3, 4, this doctrine was very fully considered, though it must be owned, that one of the features of that case, was the criminal conduct on the jiart of Lord Anglesea, in urging a groundless prosecution against his adversary for murder. In Cobden v. Kendeick, 4 Term Rep. 432, it was adjudged, that an…
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