Pipher v. Lodge
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county, where a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the defendants in error, the plaintiffs below. It was an ejectment brought by Benjamin Lodge and others against William Pipher and William A. Lloyd. The plaintiffs claimed one hundred and fifty acres of land upon the north-east branch of the Susquehannah, which they alleged Jonathan Lodge, deceased, purchased of Reuben Haines.
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IN ERROR. Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county, where a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the defendants in error, the plaintiffs below. It was an ejectment brought by Benjamin Lodge and others against William Pipher and William A. Lloyd. The plaintiffs claimed one hundred and fifty acres of land upon the north-east branch of the Susquehannah, which they alleged Jonathan Lodge, deceased, purchased of Reuben Haines. It was admitted by both parties, that Reuben Haines, in his lifetime, was seised of the premises, and both parties claimed under him.…
1Opinion of the CourtGibson, C. J.
A tenant who holds from year to year as a cropper, is indisputably disqualified as a juror, in an action to which his landlord is a party: and tenure on- such terms, is a principal *220cause of challenge. Whether the landlord may distrain or not, (about which I intimate no opinion,) the relation is intimate, and one of dependance. He may by the mere exercise of his will determine the tenancy, and deprive the cropper of his contract, who therefore cannot stand indifferent; and the juror who was in this predicament was properly set aside. On the other hand, the juror, who was brother to one of the…
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