Jordan v. Chambers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 136, Oct. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Nó. 3, Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1904, No. 91,' on verdict for plaintiff in case of Pauline M. (Handel) Jordan and W. P. Jordan, her husband, in right of said wife v. John A. Chambers. Ejectment for land in Jefferson township. Before Kennedy, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 136, Oct. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Nó. 3, Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1904, No. 91,' on verdict for plaintiff in case of Pauline M. (Handel) Jordan and W. P. Jordan, her husband, in right of said wife v. John A. Chambers. Ejectment for land in Jefferson township. Before Kennedy, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court charged in part as follows: [There was a severance until 1880, when Herman Handel, having bought the surface, purchased one-third of the coal from one of these parties that had purchased from Robb. He purchased the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The title to the land involved in this ejectment passed out of the commonwealth in 1817, and Mary Robb acquired title to it by deed dated September 15, 1832. After her death it was sold in 1837 by her administrator, the father of the appellant, under an order of the orphans’ court for the payment of debts, and the .title which the appellant claims, passed to him through sundry conveyances, starting with the deed from Mary Robb’s administrator to Hugh Toner and ending with that of the sheriff of Allegheny county to himself. Though an unbroken chain of title by deed…
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