Busch v. Calhoun
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 143, Oct. T., 1899, by plaintiff, in suit of Kate M. Busch against William Calhoun, Sr., from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., March T., 1897, No. 156, on verdict for defendant. Opinion by Orlady, J. Trespass to recover damages for the unlawful occupancy of plaintiff’s ground.
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Appeal, No. 143, Oct. T., 1899, by plaintiff, in suit of Kate M. Busch against William Calhoun, Sr., from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., March T., 1897, No. 156, on verdict for defendant. Opinion by Orlady, J. Trespass to recover damages for the unlawful occupancy of plaintiff’s ground. The following appears from the plaintiff’s statement : For that the said defendant heretofore, to wit: on November 1, 1895, with force and arms, etc., broke and entered the close of the said plaintiff, that is to say, “ All that certain lot or piece of ground, situate in the borough of Norwood, county of…
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Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
In 1873, John Cochran owned a tract of land fronting on the east side of Winona avenue, between Welcome avenue on the north and a turnpike road on the south, which he divided, beginning at Welcome avenue, into fifty-foot front lots and made the last lot at the turnpike road seventy-three feet front. From 1873 to 1879 these lots were sold by descriptive distances from either end, and an error in measurement of the frontage, left a strip of ground fifteen feet wide between lots Nos. 405 and 406. The plaintiff owned lot No. 405, and while attempting to locate the lot on the…
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- Collins v. BeattySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1892
- Jones v. GordonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
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