Case Name: ANDERSON'S LESSEE v. BRADLEY
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1797-04
Citations: 1 Del. Cas. 432
Docket Number: 
Parties: ANDERSON’S LESSEE v. BRADLEY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 432–433

Head Matter:
ANDERSON’S LESSEE v. BRADLEY.
Supreme Court. New Castle.
April, 1797.
Bayard’s Notebook, 189.
Bidgely and Vandyke for plaintiff. Bead, Bodney and Bayard for defendant.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
A witness who has an interest in the question is not competent. It is so determined in 10 Mod. 291. The modern cases have rather set afloat than settled the point of law.
Witness rejected.
Upon the same trial it was ruled by the Chief Justice that a plaintiff in ejectment could not recover without proving the person upon whom the declaration was served in possession of parcel of the land within the plaintiff's title at the time of the service.