Bellas v. Cleaver
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Common Pleas of Northumberland county. This was an action of ejectment, brought July 16th 1858, by Hugh Bellas against Kimber Cleaver, to try the title to fifty-five acres and one hundred and twenty-three perches of land in Coal township, Northumberland county. Pending the action the defendant died, whereupon, Reynell, Coates Cleaver and Catharine M. Cleaver, his children, were substituted.
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Error to tbe Common Pleas of Northumberland county. This was an action of ejectment, brought July 16th 1858, by Hugh Bellas against Kimber Cleaver, to try the title to fifty-five acres and one hundred and twenty-three perches of land in Coal township, Northumberland county. Pending the action the defendant died, whereupon, Reynell, Coates Cleaver and Catharine M. Cleaver, his children, were substituted. The plaintiff gave in evidence a warrant dated December 6th 1784, to William Green, for three hundred acres of land on the south side of a tract surveyed to Samuel Clark, on the Shamokin…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Thompson, J.
The main question below was whether or not the land in controversy was covered by the warrant and patent of the Green tract, which was surveyed on the 22d September 1789, on a warrant to William Green dated the 6th of December 1784, and patented the 23d of February 1790. The plaintiff in error is the owner of the Green tract, and complains of the ruling .of the learned judge of the Common Pleas, upon the effect of the return of survey on the Green warrant, and his charging that, in the absence of lines' on the ground, or evidence showing…
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