Armstrong v. Boyd
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal front the Circuit Court of Northumberland county, held by Chief Justice Gibson. This was an action of ejectment for a tract of land, ill which Anthony Armstrong was plaintiff, and John Boyd and others were defendants. The plaintiff and defendants were owners of adjoining tracts of land; the surveys of which interfered with each other; the land in dispute was within the lines of this interference.
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Appeal front the Circuit Court of Northumberland county, held by Chief Justice Gibson. This was an action of ejectment for a tract of land, ill which Anthony Armstrong was plaintiff, and John Boyd and others were defendants. The plaintiff and defendants were owners of adjoining tracts of land; the surveys of which interfered with each other; the land in dispute was within the lines of this interference. The plaintiff’s title was founded on an application oí Joseph Jones; and the defendants were the owners of a title which originated in the name oí Ensign Stine. On the 26th of January, 1775,…
1Opinion of the Court
*459The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
A conveyance of land described as a tract surveyed to a particular person, passes all within the bounds of the survey. It is, in fact, a conveyance by reference to courses and distances or metes and bounds, which are as operative to define the subject of the grant, as.if they were included in the deed. That Ruben Hains may have intended to sell no land within the Stine survey, cannot prevent an application of this principle to his conveyance of the Jones tract, in which the land is described “as lately surveyed and laid out unto Joseph…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Seckel v. EngleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1829