Gratz v. Hoover
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Centre county. Ejectment by John T. Hoover, against Jacob Gratz and Joseph Gratz, for a tract of land, situate partly in Snowshoe township, Centre county, and partly in Morris township, Clearfield county, containing 406 acres or thereabouts.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Centre county. Ejectment by John T. Hoover, against Jacob Gratz and Joseph Gratz, for a tract of land, situate partly in Snowshoe township, Centre county, and partly in Morris township, Clearfield county, containing 406 acres or thereabouts. This action was in the nature of an appeal from a decision of the board of property, and was brought in obedience to the directions contained in the 11th section of the act of 30th April 1792: Dun. 1st ed. 146. On the 16th day of August 1849, a warrant was granted to John T. Hoover (the plaintiff below) for “ four hundred…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered June 2, by
Bell, J.
Of the thirteen supposed errors assigned in this record, but four have been pressed upon our attention with any show of confidence. Of these, three present but a single point, and may therefore be considered together.
The leading question in the cause was as to the proper location of what is called the “ Clement Stocker” tract, in the block of surveys made under the warrant issued on the application of Aaron Levy, in 1792. The survey of that tract calls for, as conterminous, the tracts returned in the names of Henry and John Harris, and…
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