Bellas v. Levan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Northumberland county. This was an action of ejectment for three hundred and twenty-nine acres of land, by William Levan against Hugh Bellas and Jacob Weiss.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Northumberland county. This was an action of ejectment for three hundred and twenty-nine acres of land, by William Levan against Hugh Bellas and Jacob Weiss. The plaintiff gave in evidence a warrant in the name of Benjamin F- Young, dated the I Si h of November 1793, for four hundred acres of land “ adjoining land surveyed in the name of William Gray, Jeremiah Jackson, Thomas Grant, William Shartel and others; and a survey dated the 25th of October 1794, by William Gray, deputy surveyor, of four hundred and seventy-nine and a quarter acres adjoining Thomas Grant,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
—A number of errors have been assigned; and although very elaborately argued on the part of the plaintiff in error, we are of opinion that no one of them has been sustained. The only question presented by them of any importance, and which requires particular notice is, whether a survey of land, certified to have been made and returned by a deputy surveyor into the surveyor-general’s office, in pursuance of a warrant directed to him and put into his hands for execution, can be impeached after a lapse of thirty-three years from its return, by…
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