Crawford v. Thompson
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Fayette County
No. 62 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 142 June Term 1887, C. P. On April 14, 1887, S. S. Crawford and nineteen others brought ejectment against Samuel Thompson and four others, for a tract of 137 acres 99 perches, in Luzerne township. Issue.
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No. 62 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 142 June Term 1887, C. P. On April 14, 1887, S. S. Crawford and nineteen others brought ejectment against Samuel Thompson and four others, for a tract of 137 acres 99 perches, in Luzerne township. Issue. At the trial, on May 28, 1890, it was shown on the part of the plaintiffs, that Dr. G. H. Crawford and Elizabeth Rush were married on or about June 24, 1840; that Elizabeth Rush was the daughter of James Rush, who died in 1842; that on April 4, 1863, by deeds from James A. Cox and wife, and Christopher Cox, Dr. G. H. Crawford acquired title…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The real estate in controversy was purchased by George H. Crawford in 1863. The title remained in him at the time of his death, in 1884. It is now claimed by his heirs at law, a portion of whom are the plaintiffs in this suit. The attempt to set up by oral testimony an equitable title in his wife, after this lapse of time, very properly failed in the court below. It is alleged that he paid for the property with the money of his wife; and that the title was to have been made to her. There was evidence that Mrs. Crawford received some twenty-five hundred dollars from her father’s…
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