Scott v. Sheakly
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to Mercer county. This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff in error in the court below against the defendant., to recover the possession of a messuage and lot of ground fifty feet in width by two hundred feet in length, situate in a village called “ Georgetown,” in Mercer county. Both parties professed to derive their respective claims to the land in dispute from George Sheakly, who was admitted to have been the owner of it.
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ERROR to Mercer county. This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff in error in the court below against the defendant., to recover the possession of a messuage and lot of ground fifty feet in width by two hundred feet in length, situate in a village called “ Georgetown,” in Mercer county. Both parties professed to derive their respective claims to the land in dispute from George Sheakly, who was admitted to have been the owner of it. The plaintiff, in order to support his claim, gave in evidence a deed of conveyance from George Sheakly to Daniel Carlisle, bearing date the 21st of…
1Opinion of the CourtKennedy, J.
(after stating the case) delivered the opinion of the Court.
Several matters have been assigned for error, the first of which is the exception taken to the opinion of the court on the admission of evidence. So far as the defendant offered to give evidence of the instructions of the plaintiff in the execution to the sheriff, in regard to making the levy and the interest or estate that he should levy on, the court decided in favour of the plaintiff by rejecting the evidence; and I think very correctly too: but so far as the evidence offered to be given tended to show what property was embraced…
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