O'Hara v. Richardson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Allegheny county. This was an action of ejectment, by Mary O’Hara against Hugh Richardson, William Richardson, Mrs. Sims, and James Cullen, to recover possession of a tract of land in Robinson township, containing about one hundred and fifty acres.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Allegheny county. This was an action of ejectment, by Mary O’Hara against Hugh Richardson, William Richardson, Mrs. Sims, and James Cullen, to recover possession of a tract of land in Robinson township, containing about one hundred and fifty acres. The plaintiff claimed under a warrant to Robert Campbell, of the date of 17th October 1785, for four hundred acres of land, including an improvement, in the county of Washington, on the waters of Chartiers creek, about seven miles from Fort Pitt, adjoining lands of James Ewing on the south-west, John Campbell on the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 25th 1864, by
Agnew, J.
This case, in the main, appears to have been well tried. It is true that a nice criticism of each of the answers of the court to the points of the plaintiff’s counsel, and of each portion of the general charge assigned here for error, might, in several instances, seem to convict the learned judge of error. But when tested by all he said as a whole, hy collating its several parts, there are but two or three portions which can really be considered erroneous. This is all we need to say in reference to the numerous errors…
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