M'Call v. Coover
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the District Court of Erie county. ' Sarah M’Call and others against John Coover, Samuel Myers, and others. This was an action of ejectment for 403 acres of land in Beaver Dam township. The plaintiffs, who claimed under the Population Company, exhibited in evidence the following title, viz.
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ERROR to the District Court of Erie county. ' Sarah M’Call and others against John Coover, Samuel Myers, and others. This was an action of ejectment for 403 acres of land in Beaver Dam township. The plaintiffs, who claimed under the Population Company, exhibited in evidence the following title, viz. A patent from the Commonwealth for the land in controversy, (and which is known on the population draft as No. 201), to John Field, William Crammond, and James Gibson, trustee^ of the Population Company, dated 8th May 1806, containing 403 acres 80 perches of land, surveyed pursuant to a warrant…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
— The Act of the 12th of March 1783, after designating a tract for depreciation lands, and reciting a resolution of the General Assembly promising to the officers and soldiers of *155this State who served, in, the continental army certain donations or quantities of lands as set forth in said resolution, proceeds, in section 5, “ That there be, and it is hereby declared to be, located and laid off a certain tract of country beginning at the mouth of Mogulbughtiton creek, thence up the Allegheny river to the mouth of Cagnawaga creek, thence due…
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