Urket v. Coryell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THESE were actions of ejectment brought, one by Lewis S. Coryell against John Urket, the other by the same plaintiff against Daniel Wasser, in the Common Pleas of Montgomery county, for two tracts of land on the Lehigh river, one in the warrantee name of John Christ, the other in the warrantee name of Betsy Rice. William Abbott defended as landlord and owner. Both actions were tried together.
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THESE were actions of ejectment brought, one by Lewis S. Coryell against John Urket, the other by the same plaintiff against Daniel Wasser, in the Common Pleas of Montgomery county, for two tracts of land on the Lehigh river, one in the warrantee name of John Christ, the other in the warrantee name of Betsy Rice. William Abbott defended as landlord and owner. Both actions were tried together. The plaintiff gave in evidence applications for 24 tracts of land on the 19th of March 1792, one in the name of Betsy Rice for 400 acres near or adjoining land applied for by Owen Rice, on the east side…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
These two causes were tried together in the court below by the same jury, in each of which the same questions were raised by the counsel of the respective parties, and decided by the court. The plaintiffs here were the defendants below, where their counsel took no less than eleven bills of exception to the opinion of the court on points of evidence, all of which are assigned for error here, beside other errors founded on exceptions to the charge *76of the court to the jury, and to the answers of the court, given on points submitted by the…
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