Irwin v. Nolde
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 154, July T., 1895, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., June T., 1880, No. 24, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for interfering with, plaintiff’s leasehold.
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Appeal, No. 154, July T., 1895, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., June T., 1880, No. 24, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for interfering with, plaintiff’s leasehold. The facts appear by the charge of the court below, which was as follows: This is a suit in trespass brought by Martin D. Irwin, the plaintiff, who, it appears, was the tenant of a certain fifty acre farm belonging to the Seventh Day Baptists of Ephrata, located in Ephrata township, in this county. It appears that on the 25th day of February, 1878, Adam F. Madlem and J. J. B. Zerfass, who were the trustees of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fell,
This action grows out of a difficulty which originated sixteen years ago between two sets of trustees claiming control of the property of a religious society. The controversy resulted in a number of suits in the civil and criminal courts of the county, and this is the fifth appeal arising from it which has reached this court. It is time it was ended. The action was in trespass for forcibly putting the plaintiff out of possession of two fields of a farm of forty acres which he had rented of the society. The plaintiff had planted one of the fields with corn and had…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Forsyth v. WellsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1862
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- Christopher v. ShapiroDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1954