White v. White
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Bucks county, confirming the valuation and appraisement of the real estate of George White deceased. In pursuance of a petition presented to the Orphans’ Court of Bucks county, at December term 1832, by Mary White, the widow, and David and Rebecca White, the children of George White deceased, the Court appointed seven men, named in the petition, to part and value the real estate of the decedent.
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Appeal from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Bucks county, confirming the valuation and appraisement of the real estate of George White deceased. In pursuance of a petition presented to the Orphans’ Court of Bucks county, at December term 1832, by Mary White, the widow, and David and Rebecca White, the children of George White deceased, the Court appointed seven men, named in the petition, to part and value the real estate of the decedent. The persons thus appointed made report of their proceedings to February Term 1833, in which they vajued the estate, consisting of a messuage and tract…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
It is settled by Cluggage v. Swan, 4 Binney, 150, and an unbroken current of modern decisions, that affidavits of jurors are inadmissible to inculpate their fellows or themselves. The matter here, then, stands on the testimony of the sheriff alone; and the charge of intoxication is not so clearly proved by it as to call for a new inquest. He speaks of an impression from the looks of one of the jurors that he was drunk, which seems to have been effaced by the promptness and self-possession evinced by him when called on to act. Its accuracy…
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