Moore v. Smith
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Ejectment in the Common Pleas of Mercer county, in whieh John Smith, the defendant in error, was plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error, John Moore, defendant. It appeared from the record, that the plaintiff below made out a title to lot No. 1028, in the Fifth Donation District, and the question which arose on the tria.1 was as to its locality.
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IN ERROR. Ejectment in the Common Pleas of Mercer county, in whieh John Smith, the defendant in error, was plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error, John Moore, defendant. It appeared from the record, that the plaintiff below made out a title to lot No. 1028, in the Fifth Donation District, and the question which arose on the tria.1 was as to its locality. After having examined several witnessed the object of whose testimony was to show, that the tract for which the suit was brought was lot No. 1028, he offered in evidence the record of an ejectment brought by John Martin, jr., against William…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J.
The defendant in error, the plaintiff below, made out a clbar title to No. 1028, in the Fifth Donation District, and the question was as to its locality. The cause was complicated by a mass of evidence, and has been perplexed by the. course of tire argument^ but when the- matters excepted to are reduced to *391their simple elements, it presents two questions for examination, on the admissibility of evidence., neither of them attended with difficulty. The first, the admission of the record of an ejectment and judgment by one Martin, against this…
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