Richardson v. Morris

Citations

• 26 Pa. Super. 192
• 1904 Pa. Super. LEXIS 291

Syllabus

<p>Ejectment — Defenses—Purchase of outstanding claims.</p> <p>Ail owner of land may fortify his possession by purchasing outstanding claims and procuring as many conveyances as he deems sufficient, and when it is attempted to eject him he may defend under any or all of the titles which he has thus acquired.</p> <p>Evidence — Parol evidence — Written article of agreement — Lost paper.</p> <p>Where a written article of agreement has been lost, it is competent to prove its contents by parol.</p> <p>Ejectment — Evidence—Conflicting testimony — Question for jury.</p> <p>In an action of ejectment testimony as to the location of the line between the properties of the litigants, according to the various conveyances under which the parties claimed, was conflicting. There were no ancient monuments upon the ground. The surveyors who testified in the interests of the parties, respectively, had attempted to locate the line by measuring from monuments located some distance from the property, and the results were not the same when different monuments were selected. Held, that the case was for the jury.</p>