Court Opinion

ID: 6246316
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-17 21:00:22.062678+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:59:18.075540
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
This is a second ejectment by two of the heirs of Ann Miller for an undivided interest in certain land, conveyed by Ann Miller and her husband to the appellees. Former ejectments depending on the same title resulted in judgments for defendants and are reported in 175 Pa. 599 and 618.
The plaintiff’s claim is based on the fact that Ann Miller’s title being only as cestui que trust in a settlement to her sole and separate use, her deed was voidable at the instance of her heirs. The defense was that after the death of her husband, *638Ann. Miller had made the title good by receipt of part of the purchase money and other acts of ratification equivalent to a redelivery of the •' deed. On ft case stated the judge so found and his judgment was affirmed in the cases in 175 Pa. supra.
Tt is now contended by appellants that the case stated in the previous action unadvisedly conceded the facts of the ratification, and that the present case stands on a different footing. To the extent that the case was open for determination on its own evidence this is conceded. But the only difference is that here the question of ratification was for the jury. It was submitted to them, with proper instructions based on the law as laid down in the previous case, and they have found for defendants on that ground. It is not worth while to review the evidence, as the facts it tended to prove are substantially the same as appear in the opinion of the judge on page 610 of the report in 175 Pa.' The verdict here therefore established the defendant’s title on the same ground as the judgment on the case stated there. There is therefore no real difference in the cases.
Judgment affirmed.