Burford v. McCue
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong county. Ejectment, commenced July 5th 1864, by James Burford against Stephen McCue. The land in controversy lay on the north and west of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers and the Conewago creek, and contained about 41 acres.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong county. Ejectment, commenced July 5th 1864, by James Burford against Stephen McCue. The land in controversy lay on the north and west of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers and the Conewago creek, and contained about 41 acres. Abraham Yokey settled on a vacancy some time previously to 1812, put up a mill with other buildings, and made other improvements; he cleared and cultivated several acres of land, raising grain annually, and from the proceeds of the mill and his farming supported his family. Nathaniel Patterson’s land was on the south of Yokey’s…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, J.
The exceptions to the admission in evidence of the power of attorney executed in the name of “ R. P. O’Neil,” and to the deed to the defendant, made by the agent under its authority, as well as the answer of the court to the plaintiff’s 5th point on the effect of these instruments, first claim our attention in this case.
The objection to the evidence was, that the power of attorney did not primá, facie purport to be executed by Rev. Patrick O’Neil, whose title was to he transferred under its authority. In the body of the letter of attorney…
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