Gehr v. Fisher

Citations

• 143 Pa. 311
• 22 A. 859
• 1891 Pa. LEXIS 925

Syllabus

<p>[To be reported.]</p> <p>1. When a declaration as to pedigree made by a deceased person, is offered to show that A and B were related to each other by blood, it is sufficient, to lay the ground for its introduction, to show that the declarant was connected with the family of A; it is unnecessary to show by evidence dehors the declaration, that the declarant was also related to B: Sitler v. Gehr, 105 Pa. 577, reconsidered and affirmed.</p> <p>2. When the question is as to particulars in the pedigree of a person of a certain name, recitals in deeds, records, and monumental inscriptions, all of them more than fifty years old, giving such particulars respecting a person of that name, are inadmissible, when there is no other evidence than mere identity of name, to show that the person mentioned in such recitals is the same whose pedigree is in question.</p>