Silliman v. William Whitmer & Sons
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 1, Feb. T., 1899, by Robert F. Whitmer et al., surviving partners doing business in the name of William Whitmer & Sons, from judgment of C. P. Union Co., March T., 1896, No. 22, on verdict for plaintiffs. Opinion by Rice, P. J. Trespass.
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Appeal, No. 1, Feb. T., 1899, by Robert F. Whitmer et al., surviving partners doing business in the name of William Whitmer & Sons, from judgment of C. P. Union Co., March T., 1896, No. 22, on verdict for plaintiffs. Opinion by Rice, P. J. Trespass. Before McClube, P. J. It appears from the record and evidence that the plaintiffs, claiming to be owners of numerous tracts of unseated land, made a written contract with Lewis Rothermel, one of their number, and Albert Lichtenwalter, selling them all the timber growing on the said land, the same to be cut down and carried away within a period of…
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Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
In making out their paper title to the lands upon which the alleged trespass was committed the plaintiffs offered in evidence a certified copy of the record of a judgment in the Circuit Court of the United States against James Wilson, and of the execution issued thereon, by virtue of which, it is alleged, the lands in controversy were sold at marshal’s sale; also the deed from the United States marshal to Abraham Kerns, pursuant to this sale. Numerous objections of a technical nature were made to the offer, but as the parts of the record material in any proper…
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