Chew v. Parker
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a feigned issue in the form of an action upon a wager, in which Benjamin Chew was plaintiff, and Jeremiah Parker, defendant, framed by the agreement of the parties for the purpose of trying the title to thirty-six tracts of land in Jefferson county in the state of Pennsylvania, and it was agreed by writing filed, that the decision of the. questions, raised by the issue, should, in ull respects, have the same effect upon the title to the lands in dispute, as if a…
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This was a feigned issue in the form of an action upon a wager, in which Benjamin Chew was plaintiff, and Jeremiah Parker, defendant, framed by the agreement of the parties for the purpose of trying the title to thirty-six tracts of land in Jefferson county in the state of Pennsylvania, and it was agreed by writing filed, that the decision of the. questions, raised by the issue, should, in ull respects, have the same effect upon the title to the lands in dispute, as if a verdict had been given in an action of ejectment. On the trial of the cause before His Honor Judge Kennedy; on the 23d of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The first- reasotr assigned in this: case for a new trial, is, that the court permitted the articles dated September 11th, 1794, between William Parker and Moore Wharton of the one .part and James Wilson, Esq. of the other, to be given in evidence. The objection to this was, that it did not appear from any evidence previously given on the trial of the cause, 'that Parker and Wharton had any right, title or interest in the land, which they -thereby agreed to sell and have conveyed to Wilson; that without proof of some interest or right in the…
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