Hoffa v. Hoffa
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 36, Oct. T., 1908, by defendant from judgment of C. P. Lebanon Co., June T., 1905, No. 173, on verdict for plaintiff in case of John Hoffa v. Morris Hoffa, Administrator of the Estate of William Hoffa, deceased. Assumpsit on a promise made by the defendant’s intestate to another to pay money to the plaintiff. Before Ehrgood, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1,135. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 36, Oct. T., 1908, by defendant from judgment of C. P. Lebanon Co., June T., 1905, No. 173, on verdict for plaintiff in case of John Hoffa v. Morris Hoffa, Administrator of the Estate of William Hoffa, deceased. Assumpsit on a promise made by the defendant’s intestate to another to pay money to the plaintiff. Before Ehrgood, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1,135. Defendant appealed. Error assigned, amongst others was in refusing binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Beaver, J.,
Mark Hoffa conveyed to his brother William a farm containing over 100 acres, for the consideration therein named of $1.00. This farm was shown on the trial in the court below, in various ways, to have been worth $3,000 or over, and it appeared from the testimony that that amount, or a sum approximating it, was realized during the lifetime of the brother, to whom it was conveyed, and by his heirs since his death. At the time the deed was executed and delivered it was said in the presence of the justice of the peace who took the acknowledgment: “That other paper we will…
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