Wanner v. Landis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEFENDANTS PROM THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE LANCASTER COUNTY. No. 125 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 46 August Term 1888, C. P. On July 6, 1888, Sarah Wanner brought assumpsit against Benjamin Landis and Martin Shaeffer. Issue.
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APPEAL BY DEFENDANTS PROM THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE LANCASTER COUNTY. No. 125 January Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 46 August Term 1888, C. P. On July 6, 1888, Sarah Wanner brought assumpsit against Benjamin Landis and Martin Shaeffer. Issue. At the trial on August 29, 1889, the plaintiff proved by proper and sufficient evidence that she was entitled to have from the defendants the sum of $243.84, arrearages of annual interest payable to her on April 1,1888, charged in her favor as the widow of Joseph Wanner, deceased, upon lands owned by the defendants. The defendants showed, by…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Sterrett:
Considered in connection with other evidence in the cause, including the testimony of August Reibel, Henry Haldeman and Ann Haldeman, the question complained of in the first specification was rightly admitted.
There was no error in affirming the point recited in the second specification. The evidence tended to prove the facts of which it is predicated, and was therefore proper for the consideration of the jury. If they found the facts to be as stated in the point, — and the verdict shows they did, — the legal conclusion drawn therefrom is correct. It does not…
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