Fisher v. Kaufman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 77, July T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Schuylkill Co., Nov. T., 1890, No. 227, on verdict for defendant. Trespass for cutting timber. Before Albright, P. J., specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court, and by the charge of the court below. The diagram on page 447 shows the official survey upon which the patent to Charles K. Fisher, dated Feb. 21, 1890, was issued.
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Appeal, No. 77, July T., 1894, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Schuylkill Co., Nov. T., 1890, No. 227, on verdict for defendant. Trespass for cutting timber. Before Albright, P. J., specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court, and by the charge of the court below. The diagram on page 447 shows the official survey upon which the patent to Charles K. Fisher, dated Feb. 21, 1890, was issued. The diagram on page 449 shows the early Meyers and Thiel surveys and their adjoiners. The diagram on page 448 shows the land in dispute with the Fisher survey superimposed…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
On the 29th of October, 1887, the plaintiff, Charles K. Fisher, filed his application to the commonwealth for a warrant for thirty acres of land alleged to be vacant in South Manheim township, Schuylkill county, adjoining lands of Isaac Hoffmeister on the east, Casper Thiel and Sophia Meyers on the south, Christian Kaufman on the west, and Daniel Reber, Daniel Bartolett and John Siegfried on the north. To this application, John M. Kaufman and others, owners of the Casper Thiel and Sophia Meyers tracts, called for as adjoiners on the south, filed a caveat, averring…
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