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1 Yeates 576

Peaceable v. Keep

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 15, 1795

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1795-10-15

<p>Release to a baron and feme, to enable her to give testimony in the absence of the baron, is good.</p>

Decided 1795-10-15

¶1The lessee of the plaintiff claimed under a conveyance *576from John Burge and Mary his wife, (his mother) and Mary Bioren and John Bioren, (his brother and sister) wherein the words ‘ ‘ do grant, bargain, sell, alien, release, ’ ’ &c. were used, and not restricted by any subsequent words.

Messrs. Ingersoll and Read, pro quer.Messrs. Clvmer and M. Biddle, pro def.

¶2Mary Burge, in the absence of her husband, was offered as a witness, and a release was executed and delivered to her at the bar, by her son the lessor of the plaintiff, releasing all claims against her husband and herself, under the implied covenant of warranty in the deed.

¶3She was at first excepted to by the defendant’s counsel, because her husband was not present to accept the release. But on the case of Fowler’s lessee v. Welford, (Doug.' 134,) being cited, the objection was waived, and the witness was sworn.

¶4Verdict for the defendant.

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