Peoples Sav. Bank v. Denig
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEFENDANTS EROM THE COHRT OE COMMON PLEAS NO. 1 OE ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 228 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 39 June Term 1886, C. P. No 1. On March 10,1886, the Peoples Savings Bank brought ejectment against Christian Denig, terre-tenant, with notice to Benjamin P. Wilson, the Woods Run Savings Fund and Loan Association, James Wallace, and Amelia Gilleland Irwin and husband, to recover a tract of land in Allegheny county.
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APPEAL BY DEFENDANTS EROM THE COHRT OE COMMON PLEAS NO. 1 OE ALLEGHENY COUNTY. No. 228 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 39 June Term 1886, C. P. No 1. On March 10,1886, the Peoples Savings Bank brought ejectment against Christian Denig, terre-tenant, with notice to Benjamin P. Wilson, the Woods Run Savings Fund and Loan Association, James Wallace, and Amelia Gilleland Irwin and husband, to recover a tract of land in Allegheny county. The defendants’ plea was not guilty. At the trial, on December 17,1888, the following facts were shown: Barnett Gilleland died about November 1,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Me. Chief Justice Paxson:
The first eleven specifications allege error in the answers to defendants’ points. They were all answered as follows: “ These instructions [the charge] cover all the points submitted by counsel on both sides, and so far as they are answered in the affirmative in the general charge they are affirmed, and so far as denied, they are refused.”
We had occasion in Huddleston v. West Bellevue Bor., 111 Pa. 110, to pointedly condemn this mode of answering points. The points in that case had been answered in this general way, and we said: “ This is a very unsatisfactory…
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