Meyers v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county: No. 98, to October and November Term 1873. This was an action of ejectment brought July 20th 1867, by Gen. William Robinson, Jr., against Joseph Meyers, for lot No. 270 in the plaintiff’s extension of Allegheny City called “Buena Vista.” The plaintiff having died after the commencement of the suit, John D. Robinspn and others, his heirs and devisees, were substituted as plaintiffs.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county: No. 98, to October and November Term 1873. This was an action of ejectment brought July 20th 1867, by Gen. William Robinson, Jr., against Joseph Meyers, for lot No. 270 in the plaintiff’s extension of Allegheny City called “Buena Vista.” The plaintiff having died after the commencement of the suit, John D. Robinspn and others, his heirs and devisees, were substituted as plaintiffs. The title of the lots included in the plan was admitted to have been in the plaintiff. In 1854 he adopted a plan of lots, acknowledged it July 19th, and it…
1Opinion of the Court
*272The opinion of the court was delivered, March 2d 1874, by
Williams, J. —
This case was before us on a former writ of error, and is reported in 17 P. F. Smith 9. All the questions presented by the defendant’s offer of evidence, the rejection of which is assigned as error, were then considered and decided, with the exception of that which arises on the fourth paragraph of the offer. The ejectment is for lot No. 270 in the plan of lots, called “Buena Vista,” laid out by William Robinson., Jr., under whom the plaintiffs claim title as heirs at law. The defendant offered to prove that General…
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