Munshower v. Patton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county, in ejectment brought by Joseph Patton, the plaintiff below, against John Munshower and George Mahood, defendants below, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the plaintiff below. ' The plaintiff claimed under a warrant to Joseph Patton for-210 acres including an improvement, interest from the 1st Jtpril, 1785, and survey thereon.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county, in ejectment brought by Joseph Patton, the plaintiff below, against John Munshower and George Mahood, defendants below, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the plaintiff below. ' The plaintiff claimed under a warrant to Joseph Patton for-210 acres including an improvement, interest from the 1st Jtpril, 1785, and survey thereon. The defendants claimed under a location to John Cochran, with a patent and survey, and also by virtue of long possession. The question between the parties respected a piece of land in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J.
The jury beiqg returned by the brother of the defendant, in error, plaintiff below,- a challenge was made to the array, and overruled and exception taken.
At the common law, this was good cause of challenge. The wisdom of our ancestors guarded the purity of the administration of justice from even the suspicion of partiality. The jurors returned, as well as. the officers who returned them, were, as far as human precaution could provide, to stand unprejudiced. Our own legislature intended to add further security, by the several laws directing…
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