Comfort v. Mosser

Citations

• 121 Pa. 455
• 15 A. 612
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 679

Syllabus

<p>1. A party to a suit has a right to examine a juror upon his voir dire, before he is sworn in the cause, as to any matter which may affect his mind or show bias or prejudice, that the power of peremptory challenge may be exercised intelligently.</p> <p>2. The result of such investigation may or may not amount to a disqualification of the juror; that is a question which will arise only upon a challenge which may be made afterwards for cause.</p> <p>8. Where the deed, under which the defendants in ejectment claimed, was not recorded until six years after its date and ten months after the death of the grantee, one of the defendants being the grantor and the other claiming under the will of the grantee, and fraud is alleged, evidence is admissible of the acts and declarations of both the defendants, after the date of the deed, fairly in rebuttal of the presumption of delivery arising from the acknowledgment and recording.</p>