Bracken v. Miller
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. Thomas G. Campbell, executor of Mary Bracken, against Alexander Miller. And the same plaintiff against Walter H. Lowry and Walter Forward, executors of Marian Pride, deceased. These causes involved the same facts and questions of law. The charge of the court, which contains a clear statement of the facts of the case, and the questions of law raised, was the only subject of the assignment of error.
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ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. Thomas G. Campbell, executor of Mary Bracken, against Alexander Miller. And the same plaintiff against Walter H. Lowry and Walter Forward, executors of Marian Pride, deceased. These causes involved the same facts and questions of law. The charge of the court, which contains a clear statement of the facts of the case, and the questions of law raised, was the only subject of the assignment of error. Grier, President. — This suit was brought to April term 1840, by Mary Bracken, late widow of Thomas Bracken, deceased, (who was also an executrix and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
— It is unnecessary, in delivering the opinion of the Court in the present case, to do more than notice the points assigned for error, as all the facts and circumstances relating to it are fully stated and well commented upon in the opinion brought up for our revision, and to repeat them would but load the case with details, either passed on by the jury, or now waived by the plaintiff in error.
1. The first error assigned is in the charge of the court, in refusing to accede to the plaintiff’s proposition, that the knowledge of David Pride,…
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