M'Cullough v. Wallace
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. THE defendants in error, who were plaintiffs below,* brought’an ejectment in the Common Pleas of Dauphin county, as executors of the last will and testament of J 1 - Elder, deceased, by which, the real estate of the testator was devised to them to sell, against the plaintiff in error, to recover a tract of land in Halifax township, which they claimed, ... . . J J I 1 7 under a descriptive warrant, granted on the 27th oiDecember, 1785, to Samuel Rankin, by whom the…
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In Error. THE defendants in error, who were plaintiffs below,* brought’an ejectment in the Common Pleas of Dauphin county, as executors of the last will and testament of J 1 - Elder, deceased, by which, the real estate of the testator was devised to them to sell, against the plaintiff in error, to recover a tract of land in Halifax township, which they claimed, ... . . J J I 1 7 under a descriptive warrant, granted on the 27th oiDecember, 1785, to Samuel Rankin, by whom the purchase money was paid. Rankin conveyed to Bartram Galbraith, for whom a survey was made, on the 19th of June, 1806.'…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Tilghman C.' J.
The defendants in .error were the plaintiffs below,-and claimed the land in dispute, under David Elder, deceased, who devised it to them, by his last will and testament, of which he made them executor's, to be sold, Jkc. David Elder's title was derived from Bartram Galbraith, whose daughter fane he married. In order, to show title in Galbraith, the plaintiffs gave in. evidence, a warrant to'Samuel Rankin, descriptive of the landfor which this. ejectment was brought, and a-deed from Rankin to-Galbraith. Having brought down, the title to…
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