Light v. Woodside
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Picas of t-he county of Dauphin, in an ejectment brought by the plaintiff Adam Light, against the defendant Thomas Woodside, for 500 acres of land in that county. The jury give a verdict for the defendant, and judgment was rendered accordingly.
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This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Picas of t-he county of Dauphin, in an ejectment brought by the plaintiff Adam Light, against the defendant Thomas Woodside, for 500 acres of land in that county. The jury give a verdict for the defendant, and judgment was rendered accordingly. The plaintiff claimed under a warrant to his father Ludwig Light, dated the 9th of October, 1787, on which a survey was made the 21st January, 1789, and a patent was issued the 6th February, 1818. The defendant claimed under a warrant to John Light, dated the 15th August, 1780. On the 16th February, 1805,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tilghman, C. J.
(After stating the facts.) Broadhead, who was appointed surveyor-general, on the 3d November, 1789, (on the death of John Lukens,) conceived that he had a right to reject the survey of Galbraith, which was made before he had appointed him a deputy. Whether the law was so, or whether John Light had a right to insist on the acceptance of the survey made by one who was de facto deputy surveyor of the district, and many of whose returns of survey had been accepted, is not now the question. He did not insist on it, but acquiesced in the…
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