Warfel v. Knott

Citations

• 128 Pa. 528
• 18 A. 390
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 812

Syllabus

<p>(а) The owner of a lot, upon which was erected two dwellings with a common dividing wall, conveyed one of the dwellings and the lot on which it stood, reserving four inches of a private alley which was also over the grantor’s property.</p> <p>(б) His deed, which was to the grantor of the defendant, described the lot conveyed as being twenty-two feet front, but did not give the width of the alley, which width, however, was stated in the articles of sale between the parties thereto as being two feet four inches.</p> <p>1. The written agreement for the sale of the lot to the grantor of the defendant, which preceded the deed, was competent evidence to aid the court and jury in a correct understanding of the description of the lot in the deed, already in evidence.</p> <p>2. It was not error to ascertain the front line of the lot by beginning at the middle line of the division wall between the dwellings, and measuring twenty-two feet thence along the line of the street upon which the houses stood.</p> <p>3. Where, in specifications of error to the admission or rejection of evidence, neither the offers, nor the objections, nor the rulings of the court thereon, appear, they are not in accordance with the Rules of Court.</p>