Light v. Zeller
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lebanon County
No. 448 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct:; court below, number and term not shown. On June 19, 1885, “ Susanna Light and Reuben L. Light, her husband, for the use of said Susanna Light,” brought ejectment against Daniel W. Zeller, to recover a lot of ground in the village of Ebenezer. Issue.
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No. 448 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct:; court below, number and term not shown. On June 19, 1885, “ Susanna Light and Reuben L. Light, her husband, for the use of said Susanna Light,” brought ejectment against Daniel W. Zeller, to recover a lot of ground in the village of Ebenezer. Issue. At the trial, on December 14, 1886, the case presented was in substance as follows : Prior to April 6, 1877, Reuben L. Light bought the lot in controversy from Joseph Meyer, administrator of Sarah Meyer, deceased, for the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars. On the date mentioned, one hundred and fifty…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Sterrett :
Some of the most important questions presented by this record have been disposed of in favor of defendants in error by the affirmance of the judgment in Light v. Zeller, post, 582. By reference to the opinion just filed in that case, it will be seen that the judgment of affirmance is confirmatory of Mrs. Light’s claim of title, to which the evidence referred to in the first and second specifications and that part of the charge recited in the fifth specification, respectively, relate ; and it will be quite apparent, also, that plaintiff in error was not…
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