Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1799

Wharton v. Fitzgerald

Wharton v. Fitzgerald
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided June 15, 1799
3 U.S. 503 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Rawle and M. Levy, for the Plaintiff, Ingerfoll and M'-Kean, for the. Defendant.

Wharton v. Fitzgerald

Opinion of the Court

.But,

by the Court

:—This is the cafe of a bona fide pur-chafor, for a valuable confideration, from the heirs of á diflei-for, after a defeent caft, and without notice of the diffeifen, It is impoflible, that any precedent can' be produced,.that' any principle can be fuggefted, to authorife fuch.an a ¿lion. There was an acquiefcence of more than forty years, and all the fails were equally in the knowledge ofboth the parties. This cir-cumftance makes the effential diftinilion between the prefent cafe, and the cafe of Haldane vs. Duche’s Executors; where the fails were in the knowledge of the teftator only; and the ailion was brought againft: the reprefentatives of the perfon bimfelf, who had fuppreiTed, if not mifreprefented, the truth.

Non-Suit.

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