McCafferty v. Griswold
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer county: Of October and November Term Í881, No. 45. Assumpsit by Orr Griswold, et al., against William McCafferty, to recover damages for the breach of an alleged parol agreement, whereby defendant agreed to lease to the plaintiffs for the term of twenty years a tract of land for the purpose of drilling oil wells thereon. Pleas, non assumpsit, payment with leave.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer county: Of October and November Term Í881, No. 45. Assumpsit by Orr Griswold, et al., against William McCafferty, to recover damages for the breach of an alleged parol agreement, whereby defendant agreed to lease to the plaintiffs for the term of twenty years a tract of land for the purpose of drilling oil wells thereon. Pleas, non assumpsit, payment with leave. The defendant, William McOafferty, died before trial, and his administrator, Howard McOafferty, was substituted. On the trial before MoBermitt, P. J., the evidence on behalf of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
This was an action on the the case brought by the Griswolds, the plaintiffs below, against the administrator of William MeOafferty’s estate, to recover damages for the breach of a parol agreement, or rather promise, by William MeCafferty, in his lifetime, to execute to the plaintiffs a twenty years lease for five acres of land in the county of Butler. Ón the 31st of August 1872 MeCafferty made a written lease to the plaintiffs for five acres of land for the term of twenty years, in consideration of which the plaintiffs agreed to enter upon the land immediately and bore for oil, and, if they…
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