Brown's Heirs v. Bank of Chambersburg
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Common Pleas of Franklin county. June 11 and 12. Samuel M. Hankins and Hetty, his wife, Hadessah C. Brown, George L. Brown, and Benjamin C. Brown, by their next friend and guardian, Mary J. Brown, heirs of Esther Brown, brought this ejectment against the Bank of Chambersburg and Samuel Fisher, for two lots of ground, with a two-story brick building and other buildings thereon erected, situated in the borough of Chambersburg.
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Error, to the Common Pleas of Franklin county. June 11 and 12. Samuel M. Hankins and Hetty, his wife, Hadessah C. Brown, George L. Brown, and Benjamin C. Brown, by their next friend and guardian, Mary J. Brown, heirs of Esther Brown, brought this ejectment against the Bank of Chambersburg and Samuel Fisher, for two lots of ground, with a two-story brick building and other buildings thereon erected, situated in the borough of Chambersburg. It appeared on the trial, that both parties claimed under the same title. The plaintiffs gave in evidence, a patent from the Commonwealth to Benjamin…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, J.
The- entry on the books of Chambers is evidence against him, and all those who claim under him: for it is a memorandum in writing madé in the regular course of business, by a person who at the time was the owner, or had an interest in the premises. The entry is receivable in evidence, as an acknowledgment of title in Esther Brown by the person under whom the defendants claim. That the confession of a grantor, contrary to his interest at the time, is competent testimony, is settled in Reed v. Dickey, 1 Watts, 152; 3 Rawle, 438; 4 Watts & Serg. 392; and in the Union Canal v. Young.
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