Lessee of Duncan v. Walker

Ejectment for 300 acres of land, in Pine Creek township, in Northumberland county, within the late Indian purchase.

This cause had been tried at the last May assizes at Sun-bury, before M’Kean Chief Justice, and Yeates Justice, when the facts given in evidence appeared as follow:

One Alexander Donaldson settled on the lands in dispute, then within the Indian territory, in 1774, and made an improvement, as it is called, thereon, and continued there some time. Early in 1779, he sold his improvement to William Campbell for 300I. who afterwards worked on the land. Campbell was drowned in Muncey…