Zuber v. Geigar
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
It was admitted, that about the year 1785, Geigar sold a tract of land in Robeson township, Berks county, to Zuber, for 4000k ; and that the latter being wholly unable to comply with his contract, executed to the former two bonds for 250k each, with security, in May 1787, as a compensation of his damages.
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It was admitted, that about the year 1785, Geigar sold a tract of land in Robeson township, Berks county, to Zuber, for 4000k ; and that the latter being wholly unable to comply with his contract, executed to the former two bonds for 250k each, with security, in May 1787, as a compensation of his damages. On the 11th June 1793, a judgment was entered up on one of the bonds, which was afterwards assigned over to one William Lewis, the son-in-law of Geigar, in the same year Geigar commiserating the case of Zuber, told a friend of his that he should call on him, and lie would transfer him a…
1Opinion of the Court
Verdict not warranted by the evidence set aside, and a new trial granted.
Mr. Lewis for the defendant, obtained a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted.
The cause had been tried on the 27th September last, at Reading, before Teates and Smith, Justices, and the former made the following report of the evidence given at the trial:
No evidence was given to the jury of the value of this tract of laud, its quantity,®or part of the county wherein it lay.
The court observed to the jury, that exclusive of difficulty of giving damages for not conveying lands, of the value whereof nothing…
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