Legal Opinion

Brindle v. M'Ilvaine

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 31, 1822PublishedCited by 1 opinion

IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin county, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the defendant in error, the plaintiff below.' It was an ejectment for 25 acres of land, situate in Franklin county, brought against George Brindis and John Brotherton, by Elizabeth M‘Ilvaine, the. plantiff below, who having died after the commencement of the action, Alexander Mfllyaine, her heir, and devisee, was substituted in her place, according to…

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IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin county, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the defendant in error, the plaintiff below.' It was an ejectment for 25 acres of land, situate in Franklin county, brought against George Brindis and John Brotherton, by Elizabeth M‘Ilvaine, the. plantiff below, who having died after the commencement of the action, Alexander Mfllyaine, her heir, and devisee, was substituted in her place, according to the act of assembly in such case provided. A decision took place in this cause, upon a former, writ of error, which is.…

1Opinion of the Court

■ The opinion of the court was delivered by

Tilg-hmAN, C. J.

This ejectment was brought.by Elizabeth M‘Ilvaine, upon whose death, Alexander MiIlvaine, her heir, was made plaintiff, according to the act of assembly in such case provided. It is the second time it has been brought before this court by writ of error, and having fully stated the material'facts in my former opinion, I shall refer to that statement without repeating it now. Op the last trial in the court below, the counsel for the defendant took two bills of exceptions to evidence, and several exceptions tp the charge of the court.…

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