Lessee of Nicholas v. Holliday
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ejectment for 200 acres of land in Frankstown township. The plaintiff claimed under a warrant to Edward Nicholas for 150 acres, including his improvement, about one and a half miles from the forks of Frankstown Branch, in Cumberland county, dated the 6th September 1762, on which 7I. 10s. was paid into the office of the receiver general, and a survey thereon of 199 acres and 17 perches, made 25th May 1765, by Samuel Finlay, who acted under Richard Tea, the surveyor of the…
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Ejectment for 200 acres of land in Frankstown township. The plaintiff claimed under a warrant to Edward Nicholas for 150 acres, including his improvement, about one and a half miles from the forks of Frankstown Branch, in Cumberland county, dated the 6th September 1762, on which 7I. 10s. was paid into the office of the receiver general, and a survey thereon of 199 acres and 17 perches, made 25th May 1765, by Samuel Finlay, who acted under Richard Tea, the surveyor of the district. Finlay surveyed four other warrants at the same time, amounting in the whole to 1100 acres, but having included…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The papers offered come before the court in a very questionable guise, and wear a suspicious appearance. But let them be read, as was done last Circuit Court at Bedford, *in Dougherty’s lessee v. Piper, in a case resembling the *401] present. We will judge of their legal operation, and facts will arise on them, of which the jury are the constitutional judges.
It appeared in the course of the trial, that Haldane and M'Kinley had in June 1764, conveyed their respective warrants to John Litle and Richard Tea, in consideration of 5I., and that the defendant, William Holliday, on the 25th…
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- Beeson v. HutchisonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1835
- Goddard v. GloningerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1836
- Summerville v. HollidaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1833
- Collins v. BarclaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1847
- Addleman v. WaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1805
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- Beeson v. HutchisonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1835
- Goddard v. GloningerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1836
- Bellas v. CleaverSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1861
- Collins v. BarclaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1847
- Healy v. MoulSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1819