May's Executors v. Seymour

Tiie Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a proceeding under the act of 1868 relating to the unlawful detention of lands.

The complaint is that Stephen Seymour unlawfully withholds the possession of certain real estate, described as follows: a certain dwelling-house, formerly used as a schoolhouse, with the outbuildings near by, standing west of the public road running from the St. Augustine road in the direction of Drifton; also, the land adjoining thereto, which is occupied by him, containing by • estimate five acres of land, with the appurtenances, lying and being in the…