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7 Pa. 273 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania January 24, 1847
Burnside, J. This case was before the court at December Term, 1845, and is reported in 2 Barr, 122. The plaintiff below, who is plaintiff in error, complains : 1. That the verdict of the jury does not ascertain where the eighty-two, acres and a half are to be
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7 Pa. 279 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania January 11, 1847
Gibson, C. J. The defendant’s argument would require us to violate one of the most useful rules of the common law, and to overturn a train of our own decisions, beginning with Cardesa v. Humes. And for what ? To save the trouble and expense of two trials, when
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7 Pa. 301 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania January 26, 1847Not cited
Rogers, J. The right of a vendor, on the discovery of the bankruptcy or insolvency of the party to whom he has sold goods on credit, to retake them before actual or complete delivery,' is the well-settled doctrine of both courts of law and equity. The general
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7 Pa. 327 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania March 1, 1847
Burnside, J. The plaintiff in error, who was defendant below, excepted to the book kept by Owen B. Evans, of the delivery of the lime. Evans was in the employ of Hooven, delivering and selling lime, and gave evidence that he sold the lime in question to John,
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7 Pa. 368 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania March 11, 1847Not cited
Burnside, J. — The rule seems to be settled, that the test of the interest of a witness is, that he will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment; or the record will be legal evidence for or against him in some other action
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7 Pa. 411 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania April 12, 1847Not cited
Rogers, J. Marriage being an absolute gift to the husband of all the personal estate of the wife, he may dispose- off it by will, or he may empower her to make- a will, on the principle that he may waive the interest, if he.chooses, which the law secures to her
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7 Pa. 415 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania March 27, 1847
Bell, J. The plaintiff in error suggested two points for consideration. The first of these is, whether a conclusive effect is to ‘be ascribed to the decree pronouncfed in the admiralty, by which an allowance of the charge for freight claimed in this action was
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7 Pa. 443 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania April 3, 1848Not cited
Coulter, J. « Further, I give and devise unto my son Jonathan, the middle lot whereon I now live, containing one hundred and nine acres, as by a draft now in his possession will appear, to hold the same to him during his natural life, and after his decease, to
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7 Pa. 449 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania April 7, 1848
Coulter, J. It is clear enough that Joseph Jenks, at the time he gave the judgments, had within his mind the apprehension that he would be compelled to assign his property for the benefit *450 of creditors, under the statutes. He thought, however, that he could
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7 Pa. 452 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania March 15, 1848
Per Curiam. Let the decree be affirmed for the reason given ■ by the president of the court below.
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7 Pa. 488 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania April 18, 1848
Gibson, C. J. The principle of this case is so fully *491 developed in Kirkham v. Sharp, 1 Whart. 323 , that I will not further discuss it. It was there said that an owner of ground, who builds houses on a court laid out by him for their use, ipso facto annexes
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7 Pa. 492 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania June 15, 1848
Coulter, J. This cause was laid before the court at its last consultation, 9th June inst., and decided in favour of the defendant in error. The case presents imposing claims on behalf of the defendant in error, so far as the merits are disclosed on the record
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8 Pa. 147 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania June 8, 1848
Gibson, C. J. It is a principle of construction, that where land is described by courses and distances, and also by calls for adjoiners, the latter, where there is a discrepance, invariably govern; and it is as applicable to conveyances as it is to official surveys
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8 Pa. 182 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania May 29, 1848
Coulter, J. Tbe error assigned is, that tbe court erred in their decree awarding tbe money to tbe judgment of David Petriken. But this court is of opinion that tbe decree was right. Tbe land which produced tbe fund in court was situate in Centre county, when
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8 Pa. 199 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania May 26, 1848Not cited
Per Curiam. The receipt given by Mrs. Simpson to Mr. Thomas, fortified as it was by the testimony of Bond Yalentine, was a direct ratification of the arrangement between her sons, by which they provided a substitute for her dower. Having ratified it, and received
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8 Pa. 223 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania June 5, 1848
Burnside, J. The plaintiffs in error were indicted and convicted of a riot. The first count in the indictment is in the usual form. In the second, the riot was laid in rescuing certain fugitives from labour, from the state of Maryland, from their masters. *
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8 Pa. 229 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania July 8, 1848
Gibson, C. J. This residuary bequest is susceptible of opposite constructions; the one founded on a particular form of expression, and the other on an intent apparent from the frame of the will. The testator, having directed his personal property to be sold immediately
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8 Pa. 233 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania June 12, 1848
Bell, J. One of the results of our intestate laws, which treat the lands of a decedent as assets for the payment of his debts, is to charge them as liens on the realty. Originally this lien was indefinite as to time, and coextensive-with the geographical limits
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8 Pa. 240 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania June 9, 1848
Bell, J. It is true a sheriff must use due diligence to levy and make the money demanded by an execution placed in his hands. What will amount to due diligence must necessarily vary with the circumstances of each case; but it may be safely affirmed that when
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8 Pa. 272 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania June 8, 1848
Coulter, J. In estimating the language which constitutes a lease, the form of words used is of no consequence. It is not necessary that the term lease should be used. Whatever is equivalent will be equally available. If the words assume the form of a license,
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