Bachop v. Critchlow
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Warren County
No. 295 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.: court below, No. 3S September Term 1889, C. P. On August 6, 1889, W. I. Bachop brought ejectment against Stephen Critchlow, for a tract of land in Conewango township, containing 83 acres. The defendant pleaded not guilty.
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No. 295 January Term 1891, Sup. Ct.: court below, No. 3S September Term 1889, C. P. On August 6, 1889, W. I. Bachop brought ejectment against Stephen Critchlow, for a tract of land in Conewango township, containing 83 acres. The defendant pleaded not guilty. At the trial, on December 12, 1890, the plaintiff, after showing the defendant’s possession by the sheriff’s return to the writ of summons, put in evidence a patent from the commonwealth, dated August 31, 1870, for a tract of 197 acres, 42 perches, and allowance, shown to include the land in dispute. The patent recited that the land…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clark :
This ejectment was brought by W. J. Bachop, to recover eighty-tliree acres of land in Gonewango township, Warren county, in the possession of Stephen Critchlow. The land in dispute is part of a larger tract, surveyed in pursuance of a warrant dated January 28, 1886, to Mary Owens, in trust for the heirs and legal representatives of Eben Owens, deceased, who, it is alleged, in his lifetime settled upon and improved the land, and died in the possession thereof. It appears that Eben Owens left to survive him a son, Heman Owens, — whether he had other children does not…
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