Lyman v. City of Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
These were two writs of error, one by each party, to the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county, in an action of ejectment brought the 6th of January 1861, by Sarah A. Cochran against the City of Philadelphia, for a tract of 401 acres 57 perches of land, situate partly in Mahanoy (formerly Rush) township and partly in Butler (formerly Barry) township.
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These were two writs of error, one by each party, to the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county, in an action of ejectment brought the 6th of January 1861, by Sarah A. Cochran against the City of Philadelphia, for a tract of 401 acres 57 perches of land, situate partly in Mahanoy (formerly Rush) township and partly in Butler (formerly Barry) township. The plaintiff subsequently to the issuing of the writ sold to Daniel Miller, who was, October 27th 1863, substituted as plaintiff. The case was tried and a verdict rendered for the plaintiff, the judgment on which was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 7th 1868, by
Agnew, J.
Lyman v. City.
The main and only important question in this writ of error, is the same which was decided by us upon a former writ of error in the same case, reported in 13 Wright 440. That ease was heard before three of the judges only, one of them (the Chief Justice) dissenting. The last hearing was before a full bench, and the same result reached by four of us, the Chief Justice still dissenting. The simple question, stripped of all verbiage, was whether an assessment of 400 acres of land merely made in a name wholly…
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