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193 Pa. 371

Scott v. Nickum

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 30, 1899

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1899-10-30

Appeal, No. 24, Oct. T., 1899, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Lawrence Co., March T., 1894, No. 12, on verdict for defendant. Ejectment for a tract of land in the Shenango river at New Castle. Before Raybubn, P. J., of the thirty-third judicial district, specially presiding. At the trial it appeared that the plaintiff claimed title under a sheriff’s sale of the property of the Erie Canal Company.

Affirmed · Decided 1899-10-30

Per Curiam,

¶1In view of all the evidence on which the plaintiffs relied, the learned president of the 83d judicial district, who specially presided at the trial, correctly held that there was no such taking of the property in question as invested the commonwealth with the title thereto in perpetuity, and he accordingly instructed the' jury that no title passed by virtue of the sheriff’s sale to the plaintiff’s predecessor in title, and consequently none to the plaintiff himself, and he therefore directed the jury that them verdict should be for the defendant. In this he was so clearly right that neither of the questions involved in the assignment of error to the charge requires discussion. In the absence of any evidence of title in the plaintiffs, it would have been plain error to submit the case to the jury.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

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