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2 Monag. 500

Freeman v. Cornwell

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 29, 1888

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1888-10-29

Error, No. 182, Oct. T., 1887, to C. P. Forest Co., to review a judgment in ejectment by L. R. Freeman against J. C. Cornwell, Charles Bonner and others, tried without a jury, at May T., 1880, No. 10. Green, J., absent. March 20, 1880, the summons was issued for warrant No. 5158, containing 500 acres, in Green township, Forest Co. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and abstracts of title were filed by both plaintiff, and defendants.

Decided 1888-10-29

Per Curiam,

¶1From the facts, as found by the learned judge, we are not prepared to say that his conclusion and judgment were wrong. We cannot reverse if the facts were such as warranted their submission to a jury, had the case not been withdrawn from that body by the submission of the parties. That they must have been so submitted, we have no doubt; hence, as the judge of the common pleas was, by that submission, substituted for the jury, we cannot reverse unless his conclusions were clearly unwarranted by the evidence. As this is not the case, as there was proof to show the misleading character of the assessments by which Bonner may have been deceived, nothing remains for us but an affirmance of the judgment.

¶2The judgment is affirmed.

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