ADJUDGED IN THE

SUPREME COURT

-OF

PENNSYLVANIA:

WITH SOME SELECT CASES

-AT

NISI PRIUS, AND IN THE CIRCUIT COURTS.

BY THE HON. JASPER YEATES,

ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA.

VOL. III.

JNO. CAMPBELL, PHILADELPHIA:

W. J. GILBERT, ST. LOUIS.

1871.

Originally printed in 1818.

NOTES TO CASES OVERRULED AFFIRMED OR MODIFIED.

[Prepared by WM. DUANE, Esq., of the Philadelphia Bar.]

SHEWELL v. FELL, 17.

The dictum of Shippen, C. J., that the common law rule as to escapes was relaxed in Pennsylvania, is denied by Gibson, C. J., in Green v. Hern, 2 Pennsylvania Re ports, (Penrose and Watts,) 169.

DE HUFF v. TURBETT'S EXECUTOR, 158.

"Either the words said to have been uttered by that venerable Judge (Yeates) must have been spoken in very great haste, or there must have been an inaccuracy i the report." Cope v. Smith's Executors, 8 S. and R., 116.

SAMM'S LESSEE v. ALEXANDER, 268.

The dicta of Judge Yeates are denied in Arnold and another v. Gorr and another. 1 Rawle, 227.

WALKER'S ADMINISTRATORS v. SMITH, 480.

Overruled by Bevan v. Taylor and another, 7 S. and R., 400.