Davidson v. Little
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Common Pleas of Fayette county. This was an action of ejectment instituted in February 1849, in favor of James B. Davidson v. Hope Little, John Bradman, and Aaron Moore, for about 160 acres of land in Luzerne township, Fayette county. Hope Little died before the trial. The plaintiff claimed under a conveyance from Aaron Norris.
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Error, to the Common Pleas of Fayette county. This was an action of ejectment instituted in February 1849, in favor of James B. Davidson v. Hope Little, John Bradman, and Aaron Moore, for about 160 acres of land in Luzerne township, Fayette county. Hope Little died before the trial. The plaintiff claimed under a conveyance from Aaron Norris. On the trial he showed title from the Commonwealth in Thomas Scott, to a tract of land containing 307-J acres and allowance, of which the land in controversy was a part; also a deed by Thomas Scott to Esther Little, for the whole tract during her natural…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Black, C. J.
One Aaron Norris inherited the land in dispute, which was worth about eight thousand dollars, and sold it when he was twenty-three years of age, to Davidson, for three hundred and fifty dollars. At the time of the sale, another person had a life estate in part of the land. There also appears to have been some doubt about a material fact on which the title of Norris rested.
The judge who tried the cause instructed the jury, 1. That the conveyance was void if the price paid by thewendee was shockingly inadequate, though the transaction should…
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