Riddle v. Albert
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Butler county. This was an action of ejectment for a tract of land, in which Mam Mbert was plaintiff, and James Riddle was defendant.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Butler county. This was an action of ejectment for a tract of land, in which Mam Mbert was plaintiff, and James Riddle was defendant. The plaintiff below claimed under a warrant, dated the 1st of March 1794, in the name of Robert Elder, which was said not to be the description of the land in dispute, but a survey was made by the deputy surveyor of the district, embracing the land in dispute, on the 28th of May 1795. This survey was never entered in a book kept by the deputy surveyor, but was returned into the surveyor-general’s office before the year 1804, though…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
Eight errors have been assigned in this case. The first and second, which are founded upon bills of exception taken to the opinion of the court below in regard to the admission of evidence, were very properly abandoned by the counsel for the plaintiff in error. The remaining six are to the charge of the court which was delivered to the jury.
It is sufficient to say that there is no error in that part of the charge which is made the ground of the fifth error.
As to the fourth, seventh and eighth, it does not appear to me *124that they are…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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