Bidwell v. Evans

Citations

• 156 Pa. 30
• 26 A. 817
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1304

Syllabus

<p>Practice, Supreme Court — Assignments of error — Evidence.</p> <p>An assignment of error to the admission of evidence must set forth the evidence admitted under the exception.</p> <p>Ejectment — Adverse possession — Evidence—Pease.</p> <p>In an action of ejectment defendant claimed title by adverse possession for over twenty-one years by Kemp, his predecessor. Plaintiff offered in evidence a lease to Kemp from Stewart, plaintiff’s predecessor in title and patentee from the commonwealth. Defendant introduced evidence tending to show that when the lease was given Kemp was in possession of the land and executed the lease not for the purpose of creating the relation of landlord and tenant with Stewart, but to prevent Kemp’s creditors from taking the land in execution. The whole case was submitted to the jury, and a verdict was rendered for defendant. Held, that a judgment on the verdict should be affirmed.</p>