Hubley v. Keyser
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Northumberland County, held by Gibson, C. J. This was an action of ejectment in which the heirs of John Hub-ley were plaintiffs and Henry Keyset’ and others were defendants; The plaintiffs gave in evidence a warrant to John Hubley of the’ ¿1st March, 1774, for 300 acres of land, lying eastward of Christian Wertz, “bounded North by a large Ridgé, South by the foot of Mahanoy mountain, including a quantity of land mostly timbered with chestnut,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Northumberland County, held by Gibson, C. J. This was an action of ejectment in which the heirs of John Hub-ley were plaintiffs and Henry Keyset’ and others were defendants; The plaintiffs gave in evidence a warrant to John Hubley of the’ ¿1st March, 1774, for 300 acres of land, lying eastward of Christian Wertz, “bounded North by a large Ridgé, South by the foot of Mahanoy mountain, including a quantity of land mostly timbered with chestnut, and including a spring, one of the heads of the west branch of-little Shamoken Creek.” Also awarrant of the same date…
1Opinion of the Court
*500The opinion of the court was delivered by
Huston, J.
This cause depended below, and in this court on some questions of description, in the warrants and survey; but there occurred another matter on which the cause turned, and as the former is ground much beaten, and on which little can occur that is ,new, I shall confine myself to one point.
Samuel Bloom proved that he was assessor of the township in which the land lay, and in the years 1806-7 valued the tract in the name of John Hubley, as a settled tract, there having been some labor expended on it preparatory to a residence; that he gave…
2Cited by1 opinion
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