Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1886

Bone v. President of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.

Bone v. President of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided March 15, 1886
2 Sadler 55; 5 A. 751; 18 Week. No. 125; 1886 Pa. LEXIS 778

Counsel

Watson & Hawley, H. M. Hannah, S. B. Price, and A. Ricketts, for plaintiff in error., Jessup & Hand and James H. Torrey, for defendant in error.

Bone v. President of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam:

The question covered by the 14th and 15th specifications of error cannot be successfully invoked in the trial of this case. They do not propose to attack the validity of the title to this, particular piece of land.

By a broad offer unlimited as to the time of acquisition, it is. proposed to prove a want of capacity to hold, which can be asserted by the commonwealth only, and in a direct proceeding.

The remaining questions were those of facts, and they were well submitted by the learned judge.

Judgment affirmed.

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