Adams v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Cambria county. This was an ejectment brought by Ignatius Adams, the plaintiff in error, against Henry Easton, Patrick Sommers, James Howell, Mary Conway, John H. Jones and William B. Thompson, tenants in possession, and Thomas Jackson, admitted afterwards to defend as landlord, the defendents in error, for the recovery of the possession of about 75 acres of land lying in Alleghany and Summerhill townships, in the county of Cambria..
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Cambria county. This was an ejectment brought by Ignatius Adams, the plaintiff in error, against Henry Easton, Patrick Sommers, James Howell, Mary Conway, John H. Jones and William B. Thompson, tenants in possession, and Thomas Jackson, admitted afterwards to defend as landlord, the defendents in error, for the recovery of the possession of about 75 acres of land lying in Alleghany and Summerhill townships, in the county of Cambria.. The plaintiff claimed under a warrant to himself, dated the 15th of January 1835, calling for 400 acres of land, including an actual…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
— The very point presented by the first error assigned, was decided by this court in Overton v. Gibson, (2 Watts 384), that a settler who makes his residence, by mistake or otherwise, on land previously appropriated, obtains no title, by settlement, to the adjoining land over which he has cleared and cultivated, and extended his inclosures. The instruction given by the court below to the jury, appears to be in exact accordance with the principles laid down and established by this court in the case cited: the instruction given, is therefore…
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