Haggerty v. Haggerty

Citations

• 44 Pa. Super. 417
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 188

Syllabus

<p>Deeds — Recitals—Boundaries—Case for jury.</p> <p>1. Where a deed describes the land conveyed by metes and bounds, and also by adjoinders, and states that the land conveyed was fifty-four acres, and a subsequent deed refers to the first deed, but describes the land by adjoinders only, and states that the land conveyed was fifty acres, a finding by a jury that the two deeds referred to the same fifty-acre tract of land will be sustained, and it is immaterial that the two deeds stated the acreage to be different.</p> <p>Lunacy — Inquisition—Return of inquisition.</p> <p>2. A return of an inquest in lunacy sets forth a clear finding of lunacy where the inquisition shows the following: “who being respectively sworn and charged to inquire of the premises on their oaths aforesaid respectively do say, that the aforesaid H. at the time of taking this inquisition, aged about sixty years, and is by reason of lunacy incapable of managing his estate; that he hath been in the said state of incapacity by reason of said lunacy for the space of about thirty years last past.”</p>