Irish v. Scovil
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. THIS was an ejectment in the Common Pleas of Luzerne. county, by Scovii, the plaintiff below, against Job Irish, for a tract of land within the township of Claveracke, one of the seventeen townships.
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IN ERROR. THIS was an ejectment in the Common Pleas of Luzerne. county, by Scovii, the plaintiff below, against Job Irish, for a tract of land within the township of Claveracke, one of the seventeen townships. The statement of the plaintiff was filed before tbe return day of the writ against Irish: the sheriff afterwards returned the writ served as to Irish, and also as to Samuel Needham, whom he had found in posses- . -< i ■» r i ' sion, and summoned as defendant* . ' The issue being joined upon not guilty, the plaintiff gave in evidence a patent from the Commonwealth to himself, dated the…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman G. J.
The deed from R. Scovil, the plaintiff below, to John Brown, which was offered in evidence by the defendants, and rejected by the Court, contained a conveyance not only of the land in dispute, which lies within the township of Claveracke, (one of the seventeen townships) and had been submitted according to the provision of the act of 4<th April 1799, commonly called the compensation act, but also of other land lying out of the seventeen townships to which no title was derived from the Commonwealth, or from the late proprietaries of Pennsylvania, before the 4th of July 1776.…
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