Hole v. Rittenhouse
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Columbia, county. This was an action of ejectment brought in 1850, by James Hittenhouse and John Thompson, against Barney Hole, for a tract of land in Beaver township, Columbia county, containing about four hundred acres, more or less.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Columbia, county. This was an action of ejectment brought in 1850, by James Hittenhouse and John Thompson, against Barney Hole, for a tract of land in Beaver township, Columbia county, containing about four hundred acres, more or less. It was tried in the court below, and a verdict and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, January 21st 1851. The case was then removed into this court, and, on the 8th of February 1854, the record was returned and a venire de novo awarded. (See the report of this case in 1 Casey 491, for a statement of the material facts.) The case…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Woodward, J.
— No case that has passed through this court, within the last eight years, has been more thoroughly investigated than this one, which appears here now for the third time. From the first, it has been an attempt by the owner of younger warrants and surveys to appropriate land 'held by an elder title. The two warrants to Aaron Levy and Mary Weed, under which the plaintiff claims, were issued and surveyed in 1793; the warrant to John Graeff, which the defendant sets up to show title out of the plaintiff, was issued and surveyed in 1785, and a…
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