Shaffer v. Lauria
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 194, Oct. T., 1911, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1909, No. 4,307, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Louis Shaffer v. Nicholas Lauria et al. Ejectment for a strip of land in the city of Philadelphia. Before Atidenbied, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court.
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Appeal, No. 194, Oct. T., 1911, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1909, No. 4,307, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Louis Shaffer v. Nicholas Lauria et al. Ejectment for a strip of land in the city of Philadelphia. Before Atidenbied, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. At the trial the defendant made the following offer: Mr. Gorman: I offer in evidence the affidavit of James Benton Young, being affidavit filed in support of motion to dissolve injunction, in C. P. No. 2, June Term, 1883, No. 522. In that case the plaintiff was…
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Head, J.,
On the east side of Sixth street, immediately north of Queen street, in the city of Philadelphia, are three contiguous improved lots, known and numbered respectively 807, 809 and 811. In 1847 this entire property was owned by one William Shaw who died seized thereof. By his will he devised the corner property, No. 811, to his nephew, Thomas B. Shaw and his children, and particularly described it in the following language, to wit: "Being about twenty feet six inches on Sixth street and about forty feet on Queen street, the front and back lines to be the same width parallel…
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