Fritz v. Brandon
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county: Of January Term 1874, No. 224. This was an action of ejectment, commenced April 22d 1863, by Nelson Brandon and Henry Snyder against xindrew Fritz, Henry Fermier, John H. Brown and others, “ for a tract of land in Union township, Schuylkill county (formerly Northumberland county), containing about 200 acres or thereabouts, bounded by lands surveyed to James Smith, Christian Immel, John Klinger and others, being the…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county: Of January Term 1874, No. 224. This was an action of ejectment, commenced April 22d 1863, by Nelson Brandon and Henry Snyder against xindrew Fritz, Henry Fermier, John H. Brown and others, “ for a tract of land in Union township, Schuylkill county (formerly Northumberland county), containing about 200 acres or thereabouts, bounded by lands surveyed to James Smith, Christian Immel, John Klinger and others, being the same tract of land which was owned by Elizabeth Bitler,” &c. Edward J. Silliman and James B. Boylan were afterwards added…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
There are two principal questions in this case which must determine it. The first is upon the effect of the resurvey by William Gray, deputy surveyor of Northumbei’land county, of fourteen of the wan-ants owned by James Silliman ; the second upon the effect of the sales of the commissioners of Schuylkill county for taxes in 1849. The facts relating to the first question are these: On the first day of July 1793 James Silliman applied to the Land Office for eighteen tracts of land “supposed to be in Berks county,” and paid the purchase-money. Warrants were signed and were placed in the hands of…
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