Sidle v. Walters
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to Venango county. This was an action of ejectment by Philip Walters and his wife, against John Sidle, for a tract of land. All the material facts of the ¡case and the points that arose are distinctly stated in the opinion of the Court. as to .the right of the plaintiff to redeem, cited the act of 1815, sec. 4, Purd.
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ERROR to Venango county. This was an action of ejectment by Philip Walters and his wife, against John Sidle, for a tract of land. All the material facts of the ¡case and the points that arose are distinctly stated in the opinion of the Court. as to .the right of the plaintiff to redeem, cited the act of 1815, sec. 4, Purd. Dig. 865. That Witherup was a competent witness, Cutbush v. Gilbert, 4 Serg. & Rawle 551. On the point that Witherup was not trustee as the court charged the jury, he cited Kesler v. Kesler, 2 Watts 323; German v. Gabbald, 3 Binn. 302; Peebles v. Reading, 8 Serg. & Rawle…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
The plaintiff proved an actual settlement on four hundred acres of land, and a warrant and survey of four hundred acres'in the year 1806, to S. Graham, and then offered a deed from; said Graham to Francis Tracy, dated the 27th of August 1813, re*citing a patent, which was excepted to and admitted. The objection; to this evidence has been but slightly pressed. It was most clearly evidence. The plaintiffs having proved that they were the heirs of Tracy, rested. The defendant then gave the assessments of 1806 — 7,. and a treasurer’s deed, to…
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