Osmer v. Sheasley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 28, Oct. T., 1907, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Venango Co., Nov. T., 1905, No. 25, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Archibald R. Osmer v. Charles H. Sheasley et al. Ejectment for land in Sandycreek township. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court gave binding instructions for plaintiff: . Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Defendants appealed. Error assigned was in giving binding instructions for plaintiff.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
This is an action of ejectment to recover the undivided one-half of a certain tract of land, containing about seventy acres, situate in Sandycreek township, Yenango county.
On the trial of the cause the plaintiff shoived a complete paper title from the common-wealth to himself. It appears that *392the land in dispute with other lands was patented to George H. Bissell and others on April 10, 1860. In 1874 the undivided one-half of the seventy acre tract became vested in George H. Bissell, and the other undivided one-half in James Bishop and James A. Williamson.…
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