Reilly v. Mountain Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 21, Oct. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Cambria Co., March T., 1899, No. 286, on verdict for defendant in case of John Reilly v. Mountain Coal Company. Ejectment for lands in Summerhill township. Before Barker, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court refused to admit in evidence a deed in the name of the commonwealth under its great seal to Dorothea Brien, recorded in 1844, in Cambria county, but not acknowledged.
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Appeal, No. 21, Oct. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Cambria Co., March T., 1899, No. 286, on verdict for defendant in case of John Reilly v. Mountain Coal Company. Ejectment for lands in Summerhill township. Before Barker, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court refused to admit in evidence a deed in the name of the commonwealth under its great seal to Dorothea Brien, recorded in 1844, in Cambria county, but not acknowledged. Plaintiff presented these points : 1. As against the alleged title of the defendant which had its inception by warrant…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Dean,
Plaintiff brought ejectment to recover from defendant possession of about 307 acres and 112 perches of land in Summerhill township, Cambria county, warranted in the name of John Nicholson, August 8, 1793. The warrant was put into the hands of ..George Wood, at that time deputy surveyor for Bed-ford county, within those territory the vacant land described in the warrant was at that time situated. He made survey of the land to satisfy the warrant and entered the plot or draft of his survey in a survey book kept by authority of law for that purpose in his office.…
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