Gibson v. Robbins
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Crawford county. Robert Gibson against James Robbins. This was an action of ejectment for 200 acres of land. The parol evidence in the case, was exceedingly voluminous and contradictory, and a statement of it hero would not be necessary to the understanding of any principle decided in the cause. These facts, which refer to the points decided, are sufficiently .stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The first error assigned, is an exception to the opinion of the court below, overruling the objection of the plaintiff in error, to the admission in evidence of the record, upon the offer of the defendant, of a writ of foreign attachment, sued out of the court below at the suit of Jacob Gehr against Thomas Burns, to November term 1S05, and the proceedings had thereon, showing that the land in question, in this suit, had been attached as the property of Thomas Burns, and regularly sold in 1812, to Jacob Gehr. The principal objection to this…
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