Wilson v. Horner
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Orawford county: Of October and November Term 1867, No. 61. This was an action of ejectment for 10 acres of land in Yernon township, at the suit of James Horner and Mary M. his wife and others, against E. E. A. Wilson.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Orawford county: Of October and November Term 1867, No. 61. This was an action of ejectment for 10 acres of land in Yernon township, at the suit of James Horner and Mary M. his wife and others, against E. E. A. Wilson. The writ was issued June 2d 1865. The plaintiffs were heirs of John Davis, who died in 1839, and who, they claimed, had settled on the land, &c., shortly prior to 1800. The plaintiffs gave evidence of Davis’s settlement, improvement, &c.; that he went on the land in 1799; that he built a cabin, improved 8 or 10 acres, resided on it for more…
1Opinion of the Court
*160The opinion of the court was delivered, January 4th 1869, by
Sharswood, J.
This is an action of ejectment, brought by the defendants in error, who are the heirs at law of one John Davis, deceased, to recover a tract of land in Vernon township, Crawford county, and lying within the district north and west of the Ohio and Allegheny rivers and Conewango creek, to which the provisions of the Act of April 8d 1792, entitled “An act for the sale of vacant lands in this Commonwealth,” (3 Sm. L. 70), are applicable.
Evidence was given on the trial which was submitted to the jury under instructions to…
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