Greenawalt v. McEnelley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 180. Ejectment by A. Greenawalt and others against Joseph Mc-Enelley and Minnie May Guffey, by her guardian, M. M. Hick, for a tract of eighty-four acres of land. The plaintiffs claimed the land as the collateral heirs of Benjamin ■ Guffey, deceased, while the defendant, Minnie May Guffey, through her guardian, claimed as the child of said decedent.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 180. Ejectment by A. Greenawalt and others against Joseph Mc-Enelley and Minnie May Guffey, by her guardian, M. M. Hick, for a tract of eighty-four acres of land. The plaintiffs claimed the land as the collateral heirs of Benjamin ■ Guffey, deceased, while the defendant, Minnie May Guffey, through her guardian, claimed as the child of said decedent. The plaintiffs alleged that said Minnie Guffey was not a legitimate child of said Benjamin Guffey, and that her mother, Margaret'Oolors, now Gilson,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
We need not discuss the question whether Margaret Gilson would have been a competent witness prior to the Act of April 15th 1809, Pamph. L. 30. That act clearly made her competent, this being a contest between parties claiming the estate of Benjamin Guffey, her deceased husband, by devolution. She was not called to testify against her husband, nor to any fact the knowledge of which was acquired by reason of her confidential relations with him, but as to matters within her own knowledge.
There was abundant evidence to prove the marriage. There was her own direct and positive testimony ; the…
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