Schuylkill & Dauphin Improvement & Railroad v. McCreary & Jones
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton county. No. 130, to January Term 1866. This was an action of ejectment brought the 24th of September 1849, in the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county, for a tract of land in Tremont, Frailey and Porter townships in Schuylkill county, containing 170 acres, surveyed on warrant in the name of John Lesher, bounded by lands in the name of Nancy Kinnear, Michael Binninger, John Moyer and others.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton county. No. 130, to January Term 1866. This was an action of ejectment brought the 24th of September 1849, in the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county, for a tract of land in Tremont, Frailey and Porter townships in Schuylkill county, containing 170 acres, surveyed on warrant in the name of John Lesher, bounded by lands in the name of Nancy Kinnear, Michael Binninger, John Moyer and others. The plaintiffs were the President and Directors of the Williams Valley Railroad and Mining Company, and the defendants John Schall, Andrew J. Jones,…
1Opinion of the Court
*316The opinion, of the court was delivered, July 2d 1868, by
Thompson, C. J.
Of the twenty-nine assignments of error we have on this record, I shall confine my attention almost exclusively to those embraced by the oral argument of the counsel for the plaintiffs in error; not regarding any of them as having been abandoned, however, but because after a careful examination of them, I am not able to discover any grounds to suspect error in the ruling of the learned judge below in regard to them, or which requires discussion.
1. The exemplification of the record from Berks county, received in evidence,…
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