71 Pa. 346 | Pa. | 1872
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
If it be conceded that the record of the log-mark adopted by the plaintiff’s assignor was not admissible in evidence under the Act of 10th April 1862, because the certificate required by the act was not signed by him, but by his agent, it does not follow that the other evidence offered in support of his title to the lumber, ought not to have been received as primfi facie evidence of ownership.
The replevin was for four piles of white pine lumber at defendant’s saw-mill, containing about eighty thousand feet, which the plaintiff alleged had been sawed out of logs belonging to his
Judgment reversed, and a venire facias de novo awarded.