Gibson v. Tyson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
WRIT of error to the district court of Lancaster county. This is an action of replevin, in which the plaintiff, Isaac Tyson, jr., claims 35 tons of chromate of iron as having been taken from him by William Gibson the defendant. The latter pleaded that this chrome was his own property, which the plaintiff denied; and upon that fact the issue between them depended.
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WRIT of error to the district court of Lancaster county. This is an action of replevin, in which the plaintiff, Isaac Tyson, jr., claims 35 tons of chromate of iron as having been taken from him by William Gibson the defendant. The latter pleaded that this chrome was his own property, which the plaintiff denied; and upon that fact the issue between them depended. In 1820, David Brown purchased at sheriff’s sale a tract of land in Little Britain township, containing 130 acres more or less, with a small stone house and small stable thereon, for the sum of 425 dollars. On the 3d of April 1830,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
There is nothing in the first two errors assigned, that would justify or warrant a reversal of the judgment, for the evidence given under these exceptions was not such as could have, in the slightest degree, prejudiced the defendant below with the jury. But admitting, for the sake of argument, that the evidence objected to might have influenced the jury in deciding facts improperly against the defendant below,'still, I should doubt the propriety of reversing the judgment for that reason, if frpm the other facts and circumstances testified to…
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