Erie & W. V. R. Co. v. Knowles
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE LUZERNE COUNTY. No. 237 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 43 March Term 1885, C. P. This was an action of trespass q. c. f. by Joseph Knowles and Amelia Knowles, his wife, in right of the wife, against the Erie & Wyoming Valley R. Co., to recover damages for injuries done to the real estate of the wife. Joseph Knowles died before the trial and his death was suggested upon the record.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE LUZERNE COUNTY. No. 237 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 43 March Term 1885, C. P. This was an action of trespass q. c. f. by Joseph Knowles and Amelia Knowles, his wife, in right of the wife, against the Erie & Wyoming Valley R. Co., to recover damages for injuries done to the real estate of the wife. Joseph Knowles died before the trial and his death was suggested upon the record. In 1883 Joseph and Amelia Knowles occupied a dwelling upon a lot in Marcey township, for injuries to which dwelling and lot the defendant company was charged, and…
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Mr. Justice Green:
In the case of Shellhammer v. Ashbaugh, 43 Pa. 24, we said: “ The rule is settled, therefore, that as between father and child the evidence of a gift or sale must be direct, positive, express and unambiguous ; that its terms must be clearly defined, and that all the acts necessary to its validity must have special reference to it and nothing else.”
In Moore v. Small, 19 Pa. on p. 468, Mr. Justice Woodward thus speaks of parol gifts of lands: “ A class of cases commonly called parol gifts from father to son is found in our books, the origin of which was in Syler v.…
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