Legal Opinion

Walker v. Walker

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided September 15, 1827PublishedCited by 1 opinion

IN ERROR. Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by'

Huston, J.

The defendants in error, who were plaintiffs below, claimed in right of their wives; who vyere daughters of James and Mary Stewart, the lands in question situate on Robinson’s run.

The whole case presents a mass of strange, incoherent and contradictory testimony, to which it would not be easy to find a parallel injudicial history. The foundation of the plaintiffs’ claim, is an improvement. Dinsmore states a bill of sale of an improvement to have been máde by Gabriel Walker, to his sister Rebecca Walker, previous to 1776; that this bill…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Pipher v. LodgeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1818
  2. Lessee of Magens v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1811

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Patterson v. NicholSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1837

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