Bunting v. Young
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THIS was an ejectment brought in the Common Pleas of Northampton county to January term 1841, by Jacob T. Bunting against Reuben Young, Samuel Doak, and George Zeiegenfuss, impleaded with Daniel Bickel, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the defendants below.
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THIS was an ejectment brought in the Common Pleas of Northampton county to January term 1841, by Jacob T. Bunting against Reuben Young, Samuel Doak, and George Zeiegenfuss, impleaded with Daniel Bickel, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered in favour of the defendants below. The plaintiff gave in evidence a warrant for 400 acres to Isaac Kreider, dated the 2d August 1793; also a survey in pursuance of said warrant for 466^ acres, made on the 25th September 1793 and returned the 20th February 1794. On the 23d January 1832, a patent was granted for the land thus warranted and surveyed,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
It is unnecessary to pass an opinion upon the bills of exception to the admission of evidence, as no injury or detriment whatever could have accrued to the plaintiff from it. For, according to the instruction given by the court to the jury, it had no concern with, or relation to the ground on which the court charged erroneously against him. The court expressly told the jury that the plaintiff’s title to the land in question was originally the best, and was so still, unless the jury should be of opinion that it had been abandoned by him, or…
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