Gratz v. Gratz
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This case came before the court on a writ of error to tbe District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, in which bills of exceptions were taken to the opinion of that court on points of evidence and in the charge delivered to the jury.
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This case came before the court on a writ of error to tbe District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, in which bills of exceptions were taken to the opinion of that court on points of evidence and in the charge delivered to the jury. The action in the court below was a summons in partition brought to December Term, 1830, by Hyman Gratz, the plaintiff in error, against Simon Gratz, the defendant in error, for a four story brick messuage or tenement and lot of ground, situate at the south-west corner of High street and Seventh street from the river Delaware, in the city of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The first and second errors consist of exceptions to the opinion of the court below, in overruling testimony offered by the plaintiff in error, who was also the plaintiff below.
The first is, that the court prevented the plaintiff from showing that in making a partition of the property in question, into two parts, one whereof to contain one equal third part, and the other two equal third parts of the whole, that the parcels of the property numbered 2, 3, 4 and 5, upon the ground plot exhibited, would have been more suitable for making up the…
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