Lessee of Syler v. Eckhart
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THE wife of Syler was the daughter of ~ohn Eckhart, deceased, and the defendants were his sons. The latter were in possession of different parts of a tract of land, which it was alleged belonged to the father who died intestate; and this ejectment was brought to recover the portion which descended to the daughter.
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THE wife of Syler was the daughter of ~ohn Eckhart, deceased, and the defendants were his sons. The latter were in possession of different parts of a tract of land, which it was alleged belonged to the father who died intestate; and this ejectment was brought to recover the portion which descended to the daughter. There was no dispute that the land was formerly owned by the father; but the defence set up was this, that the father made aparo1g~ft to the defendants of the land they respectively occupied at the trial, being parts of a larger tract on which he resided, and put them in possession…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Tilghman C. J.
This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Dauphin county, on a motion for a new trial, overruled by Judge Yeates who tried the cause, without ai-gument and by consent.
The defendants relied on a parol gift of lands by their deceased father, in consequence of which they had made valuable impi-ovements, and had long possession in their father’s life time.
Although the court are not disposed to extend the principles on which parol agreements concerning lands have been confinned, farther than they have been already carried, yet they are bound…
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