Velott v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware county : Of January Term 1883, No. 164. Ejectment, by George Velott, Annie, V. Leland, Abigail Velott, Mary Velott, and Penrose Velott, against Albert P. Lewis, for a tract of land in the borough of Media. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, before Clayton, P. J., the plaintiffs claimed title under one Elias Worrall, deceased. The title of Elias Worrall was disputed by the defendant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware county : Of January Term 1883, No. 164. Ejectment, by George Velott, Annie, V. Leland, Abigail Velott, Mary Velott, and Penrose Velott, against Albert P. Lewis, for a tract of land in the borough of Media. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, before Clayton, P. J., the plaintiffs claimed title under one Elias Worrall, deceased. The title of Elias Worrall was disputed by the defendant. The plaintiffs, in order to show title in Elias Worrall, having put in evidence the record of a deed from William Penn, proprietor, to William and Peter Taylor, dated…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
The first, second, fourth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth assignments of error cannot be sustained, as the rulings therein complained of are, in our opinion, faultless. The deed of Eandle Groxton and wife to Peter Trego, dated October 10th 1734, ought to have been acknowledged or proved, according to the provisions of the Act of May 28th 1715, in order to admit it of record. Under that Act, an effective probate could only be made by two or more witnesses, and it was therefore held, in the case of Vickroy v. McKnight, 4 Bin. 204, that an office copy of a deed, executed prior to the Act of 1775,…
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