Riddle v. Murphy
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Washington ° county, This was an ejectment brought in the Court below, by John Murphy and Rosanna Jackson, against Samuel Riddle, io recover a tract of land in Washington county.
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In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Washington ° county, This was an ejectment brought in the Court below, by John Murphy and Rosanna Jackson, against Samuel Riddle, io recover a tract of land in Washington county. The land had belonged to Cornelius Murphy, who held under an improvement right, and died in 1802. By his will he devised It to his daughters Alice and Ann Murphy: The .plaintiffs who were the brothers and sister of Cornelius Murphy, claimed as the heirs at law of Alice and Ann, who it was proved had gone away from the State prior to the death of Cornelius Murphy, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson J.
The plaintiffs below are the heirs of Alice and Ann Murphy, the devisees of Cornelius Murphy, under whom the defendant also claims. John Riddle, who devised the premises to the defendant, and who was also the administrator of Cornelius Murphy, confessed a judgment on which the land was sold, and became himself the purchaser. The questions below, which are again agitated here, were : 1. Whether, if the cause were with the plaintiffs on all the other points, they would not, nevertheless, be bound to shew title in Cornelius Murphy, at the time of…
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