Mayor of Philadelphia v. Riddle
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Erie county. Ejectment. The ease in the Court below involved an immense amount of every kind of evidence; some of it brought up from a remote date; and very numerous questions as to the effect of deeds through which the plaintiff, in whom the title had been vested to bring suit, as trustee of parties interested under the last will of Mrs. Susan Wallace, claimed.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Erie county. Ejectment. The ease in the Court below involved an immense amount of every kind of evidence; some of it brought up from a remote date; and very numerous questions as to the effect of deeds through which the plaintiff, in whom the title had been vested to bring suit, as trustee of parties interested under the last will of Mrs. Susan Wallace, claimed. But though bills of exception were taken to much of this evidence, the Court here refused to pass upon it, because the paper-book of the plaintiff in error did not set forth nor state the deeds or evidence…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Woodward, J.
The counsel of the plaintiffs in error could not have expected us to pass on the effect of the deeds mentioned in the bills of exception, for he has not furnished us with a syllable of those documents. The rules of Court require the evidence, *262when it is to be reviewed, to be printed in an appendix, which is wholly omitted from the plaintiffs’ paper-book. The first five assignments of error, therefore, are to be dismissed without further notice, and it is to be assumed that the title papers were adequate transfers of the title of John B.…
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