Meehan v. Williams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. This was an action of ejectment by John Meehan against James Williams, to recover five acres of land in Brady Bend township, in which, under the instruction of the court below, there was a verdict and judgment for defendant.. The whole case will be found in the opinion of this court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
— This was an action of ejectment. Both parties claimed title under Philip Snow, who appears to have been for many years the owner and occupant of a tract of land containing fifty acres, of which the five acres now in contest was a part. In the years 1850 and 1851, judgments were recovered against Snow, which were revived by seire facias sued out against him in 1856. Executions were issued upon the judgments of revival; a levy was made upon the tract of land, describing it by its appropriate adjoiners, and as containing fifty acres more or…
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