Salmon Creek Lumber & Mining Co. v. Dusenbury
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Forest county: Of October and November Term 1885, No. 29. Ejectment, by the Salmon Creek Lumber and Mining Company against William A. Dusenbury, to recover possession of a strip of land, situate partly in Kingsley and partly in Howe township, described in the writ as follows: “Bounded on the northeast by Warrant No. 5104; on the northwest by Warrants Nos. 5266, 5267, 5268 and 5269; and on the southwest by a line running southeast from…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Forest county: Of October and November Term 1885, No. 29. Ejectment, by the Salmon Creek Lumber and Mining Company against William A. Dusenbury, to recover possession of a strip of land, situate partly in Kingsley and partly in Howe township, described in the writ as follows: “Bounded on the northeast by Warrant No. 5104; on the northwest by Warrants Nos. 5266, 5267, 5268 and 5269; and on the southwest by a line running southeast from the northwest corner of Warrant No. 5128; and on the southeast by other lands of the plaintiff, and being parts of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
We cannot agree with the learned judge of the court below that the name, “ George Meade,” written by the deputy surveyor, on the northwest of his separate drafts of the Mifflin surveys, was not of itself a call for the Meade line. It was, and could have been, nothing else. For what other conceivable purpose could the deputy have placed that name as it is found on the drafts, other than to show that warranted land of George Meade adjoined on the northwest? He knew the position of those lands, for he had surveyed both blocks upon the same day, and we cannot suppo.se that, departing from his…
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