Wolford v. Herrington
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 58. Ejectment for twenty-five acres of land, brought by John Wolford and Bachel, his wife, in right of the wife. The premises in controversy were originally purchased by Wolford from James Muse.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 58. Ejectment for twenty-five acres of land, brought by John Wolford and Bachel, his wife, in right of the wife. The premises in controversy were originally purchased by Wolford from James Muse. There being some difficulty about the title, Mrs. Wolford subsequently paid the purchase-money out of her separate estate, and received a deed therefor from P. K. Muse, his father, James Muse, having in the meantime died. This deed Mrs. Wolford failed to record. The premises were afterwards sold as the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sharswood
When this cause was in this court before on a former ejectment (24 P. F. Smith 311), there was no evidence of Mrs. Wolford’s title to the land except her own parole testimony. The deed was not in evidence. The majority of the court thought, however, that there was evidence which ought to have gone to the jury that she had a bona fide claim — whether her title was good or bad — and if she had such a claim the case fell within the principle of Beegle v. Wentz, 5 P. F. Smith 369, and Boynton v. Housler, 23 Id. 453.
All after this in the opinion filed in that case was certainly extra-judicial, not…
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