Edwards v. Thomas
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 422, Jan. T., 1895, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Northumberland Co., September T., 1888, No. 857, on verdict for defendant. Ejectment for a lot of land in Mt. Carmel. Before Metzger, P. J., of the 29th judicial district, specially presiding. At the trial it appeared that plaintiffs claimed title as the children and heirs at law of Edmund Edwards, deceased.
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Appeal, No. 422, Jan. T., 1895, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Northumberland Co., September T., 1888, No. 857, on verdict for defendant. Ejectment for a lot of land in Mt. Carmel. Before Metzger, P. J., of the 29th judicial district, specially presiding. At the trial it appeared that plaintiffs claimed title as the children and heirs at law of Edmund Edwards, deceased. Defendant claimed under a voluntary conveyance by Edmund Edwards and Charlotte Edwards (the defendant) as his wife to Daniel Walters, trustee, dated Sept. 14, 1876, and by Daniel Walters and wife by their deed dated May…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green,
After a careful reading of the whole record in this case, we fail to discover the presence of a solitary fact which would justify any court or any jury in annulling the defendant’s title to the property in question. It is perfectly manifest that Edmund Edwards fully and consciously intended to convey the title to the property to the defendant, and that he abided in that intention to the moment of his death. They lived together as man and wife, and both obviously thought they were such for more than twenty years, in entire harmony so far as the testimony discloses.…
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