Lessee of Steinmetz v. Young
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THIS was an appeal froin the decision of the late Judge Smith at a Circuit Court for York in May 1808. The plaintiff claimed under a warrant to William Gronce for 100 acres in the year 1751, founded upon an improvement. In October 1761 Grouce conveyed to George Stevenson and George Ross, describing the property as “ a plantation and “ tract of land containing by estimation 300 acres more or “ less.”
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THIS was an appeal froin the decision of the late Judge Smith at a Circuit Court for York in May 1808. The plaintiff claimed under a warrant to William Gronce for 100 acres in the year 1751, founded upon an improvement. In October 1761 Grouce conveyed to George Stevenson and George Ross, describing the property as “ a plantation and “ tract of land containing by estimation 300 acres more or “ less.” A survey of 279-f acres was made on the warrant, by Thomas Armer, an assistant deputy surveyor, on the 26th of February 1764, which was never returned; and it was clear from the surveyor’s field…
1Opinion of the Court
Tilgiiman C. J.
after stating the case, delivered the judgment of the court.
There is no doubt but that prior to the year 1767, a survey of 300 acres might have been made on a warrant for one •hundred; such was the practice of the land-office. But in the-year 1767, the board of property made an order, that no survey should be accepted, containing more than ten per cent, surplus above the quantity called for by the warrant, with the usual allowance of six per cent, for roads &c. An act of assembly to the same effect was made in April 1785; but as it has been expressly decided by this court in…
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