Chess v. Chess
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This- was an action of ejectment brought to recover a tract of land in Allegheny county, and was tried at a circuit court held for that county by justice Rogers.
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This- was an action of ejectment brought to recover a tract of land in Allegheny county, and was tried at a circuit court held for that county by justice Rogers. Both plaintiff and defendants- were children of William Chess',> deceased, and both claimed the land under their father; the plaintiff, by a deed dated the 14th February, 1823, and the defendants.as heirs at law.- It was contended by the defendants, that the deed to the plaintiff, from William- Chess,- his father, was void;- in consequence of the mental incapacity of the grantor to make a deed on the 14th February, 1823, and that it…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smith J.
The long and warmly litigated cause of Chess v. Chess and others, -was tried at the last circuit court, at Pittsburg, before Mr. Justice Rodgers, and again'comes before this court for decision, on an appeal from the judgment of that .court. It is a family contest, and has not only been before the court of common pleas, and the supreme court of Allegheny county, but also heretofore before the circuit court; and like most family disputes, has engendered more ill blood than is usual in other controversies: indeed, in the present instance, this has…
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