Swartz v. Swartz
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In .error from the Common Pleas of Bucks county. Dec. 29, 30. Ejectment for a moiety of a hundred and seventeen perches of land. In 1808, Michael Swartz devised the premises to his wife for life, remainder to Thomas Swartz, the defendant below, in fee.
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In .error from the Common Pleas of Bucks county. Dec. 29, 30. Ejectment for a moiety of a hundred and seventeen perches of land. In 1808, Michael Swartz devised the premises to his wife for life, remainder to Thomas Swartz, the defendant below, in fee. In 1813, Michael G. Weisel, jun., purchased from Michael Weisel three acres and three perches of land adjoining this land, together with the privilege of damming a creek so far as the same passes through the premises of Michael Weisel, and, also, the privilege of building and repairing a dam across said creek, so far as may be beneficial to…
1Opinion of the CourtGibson, C. J.
These exceptions to evidence are so nice, that it is unnecessary to say more in regard to them, than that they are not sustained. Neither is it necessary to examine, in detail, exceptions to dislocated parts of the charge. It would not be more troublesome than unprofitable to follow out to their results these mincing assignments of error, -which, catching at particular expressions, lead to no sound conclusion as to the accuracy of the whole. The *358proper inquiry is, whether the ruling principle of the cause has been correctly stated and applied to the evidence. To determine whether it has been…
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