Thompson v. Kauffelt
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of York county: Of January Term 1885, No. 459. Ejectment, by Henry Kauffelt against William A. Thompson and Alexander 11. Thompson, owners, and Zachariah Oleweiler, tenant, to recover a small triangle of land in the borough of Wrightsville, described in his praecipe as beginning at the northeast corner of plaintiff's brick house on Front street, running thence back along the brick wall of his house fifty feet nine inches, thence by a line…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of York county: Of January Term 1885, No. 459. Ejectment, by Henry Kauffelt against William A. Thompson and Alexander 11. Thompson, owners, and Zachariah Oleweiler, tenant, to recover a small triangle of land in the borough of Wrightsville, described in his praecipe as beginning at the northeast corner of plaintiff's brick house on Front street, running thence back along the brick wall of his house fifty feet nine inches, thence by a line at right angles with said wall four feet eight inches, and thence by a straight line to place of beginning. Plea not…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The parties to this ejectment trace their title to a common source. The small piece of land in dispute is admittedly part of a large tract, formerly owned in fee by the Wrights-ville, York and Gettysburg Railroad Company. The deed to Henry Hantz was dated 27th March, 1862; that to Henry Kauffelt, 28th April, 1862. The plaintiff claims title to the land in dispute under the deed last mentioned ; the defendants under the deed to Hantz, and also by the Statute of Limitations. Dismissing, for the present, the claim under the Statute, wé will consider the case presented by the conveyances…
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