Legal Opinion

White v. Bisbing

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 15, 1794PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Ejectment of 20 acres of land in Groyned township.

This was a mere dispute about boundaries, and involved the title of about 3^ acres of land.

A contest arose, whether the deposition of one Patrick Menon, now dead, should be read in evidence by the plaintiff It appeared that the controversy had been submitted by the parties to arbitrators, about five years before, and that they had entered into arbitration bonds. The affidavit of Menon was produced to those arbitrators on the part of the plaintiff, tending to shew, that near 50 years before, he had run the *400line contended for by the plaintiff,…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Morris's Lessee v. VanderenSupreme Court of the United States · 1782
  2. Brenner v. LesherSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  3. Orr v. HadleySupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1858
  4. Shomo v. Zeigler, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Schuylkill County1874
  5. Whitfield v. Reading Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1955

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