M'Ginn v. Shaeffer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the district court of Alleghany county. Sophia Shaeifer and Sarah Shaeifer by their next friend John Fritchman against Bernard M’Ginn. Ejectment for two lots in the Northern Liberties of Pittsburgh. The plaintiffs are two of three children, and heirs of Peter Sbaeffer deceased, who formerly resided in the Northern Liberties of Pittsburgh.
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ERROR to the district court of Alleghany county. Sophia Shaeifer and Sarah Shaeifer by their next friend John Fritchman against Bernard M’Ginn. Ejectment for two lots in the Northern Liberties of Pittsburgh. The plaintiffs are two of three children, and heirs of Peter Sbaeffer deceased, who formerly resided in the Northern Liberties of Pittsburgh. It was in evidence that he died some fourteen or fifteen years ago, on a journey, or while residing at Port au Prince ; he had possession, and claimed title to the lots in question, and when he left Pittsburgh the last time, he left his…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
The arguments of the counsel for the plaintiff in error, though ingenious, are by no means satisfactory in showing that the charge of the court below was wrong. Sitting as a court of equity, and embracing in one view all the features of this case, it is impossible not to perceive a series of omissions and of acts on the part of the defendant, producing the effects of a contrivance on his part to divest the plaintiffs of their property, and to secure it for himself at a manifest undervalue, whether the actual intent so to do can be proved or…
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