Gish v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 404, Jan. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgmentof C. P. Lancaster Co., May T., 1892, No. 20, on verdict for plaintiff. Ejectment for two hundred and seven acres of land in West Donegal township. Before Livingston, P. J. At the trial it appeared that the land in dispute was formerly owned by John S. Gish, father of Henry B. Gish, the plaintiff. John S. Gish died on March 15, 1889, intestate, leaving six children to survive him.
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Appeal, No. 404, Jan. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgmentof C. P. Lancaster Co., May T., 1892, No. 20, on verdict for plaintiff. Ejectment for two hundred and seven acres of land in West Donegal township. Before Livingston, P. J. At the trial it appeared that the land in dispute was formerly owned by John S. Gish, father of Henry B. Gish, the plaintiff. John S. Gish died on March 15, 1889, intestate, leaving six children to survive him. From the uncontradicted testimony it appeared that on March 4, 1882, John S. Gish, Henry B. Gish, Christian Butt and Christian H. Coble met at the house of…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
If the deed of March 4, 1882, from John S. Gish to his son Henry B. Gish, the plaintiff, for the land in controversy, had been admitted without competent evidence of its execution and delivery, there would be some merit in the first specification of error, but such was not the fact. The execution of the deed was not seriously questioned, and the testimony as to its delivery, as claimed by the plaintiff, was quite sufficient to justify the submission of that question to the jury. There was, therefore no error in admitting the deed in connection with the testimony as to those facts.…
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