Cambria Iron Co. v. Tomb
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Indiana county This was ap action of ejectment by the Cambria Iron Company against William Tomb, Margaret C. Tomb, and Mary Tomb, for four hundred and forty-one acres and one hundred and forty perches of land and allowance, in Pine township, ££ being the same tract of land which William Tomb, one of the defendants, conveyed to David Stewart, from whom the plaintiff derived title.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Indiana county This was ap action of ejectment by the Cambria Iron Company against William Tomb, Margaret C. Tomb, and Mary Tomb, for four hundred and forty-one acres and one hundred and forty perches of land and allowance, in Pine township, ££ being the same tract of land which William Tomb, one of the defendants, conveyed to David Stewart, from whom the plaintiff derived title. William Tomb appeared and confessed judgment as to himself alone, without prejudice to the others. The parties, who were unmarried, settled on this land some time in 1840 and lived…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by '
Agnew, J.
— The plaintiffs in error, who were also plaintiffs below, claimed title by a conveyance from William- Tomb, one of the defendants, to David Stewart. William Tomb, and his two sisters Margaret and Mary, all unmanned, took possession of an abandoned improvement in 1840, cleared it up,-- and lived upon the land for many years, supporting themselves, and also an insane sister, by their labour upon it. The evidence shows clearly that while making the improvement the sisters claimed the land equally with William, and assisted in the work, helping…
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