Penn's Lessee v. Hartman
This text of 2 U.S. 230 (Penn's Lessee v. Hartman) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
—It is plain that the paper offered, is not the best evidence of which the nature of the case admits; for, if the original was produced, it might be proved to be in the hand-writing of a proper officer; or the contrary might be made to appear. We cannot, indeed, consider it as a regular office paper. The survey is not returned into the Secretary’s office, as the express words of the warrant enjoins; nor does it, in any way, appear, that it was made by an authorised person.
The evidence must, therefore, be rejected.
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