Jack v. Dougherty
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Alleghany county. This was an ejectment for a tract of fifty-one acres of land, brought, by Samuel Jack against John Dougherty and James Dougherty. John Dougherty, one of the defendants, was admitted to have been originally the legal owner of the land in dispute.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Alleghany county. This was an ejectment for a tract of fifty-one acres of land, brought, by Samuel Jack against John Dougherty and James Dougherty. John Dougherty, one of the defendants, was admitted to have been originally the legal owner of the land in dispute. On the 29th of October 1829 John Dougherty entered into an article of agreement with Samuel Wilson for the sale of the land, in consideration of Wilson assigning or transferring to him all the money and property coming to the said Wilson from a certain James Shields, .on a sale made by Wilson to Shields,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The first error assigned embraces two bills of exception taken to the opinion of the court below, rejecting evidence offered by the plaintiff in error to prove a much larger money consideration than that inserted in his deed of conveyance from John Dougherty, one of the defendants, in order to relieve it from the imputation of having been obtained by fraud from Dougherty. This evidence consisted of the declarations and admissions of the parties made at the time of the execution of the deed by Dougherty to the plaintiff; which were offered to…
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