Lessee of Davis v. Keefer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was an appeal from the decision of the late Mr. Justice Smith at a Circuit Court for Franklin county in April 1808. It was an ejectment for four acres of arable land, four acres of meadow, and twelve acres of woodland, adjoining the town of Strasburg, to which the plaintiff proved the following title.
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This was an appeal from the decision of the late Mr. Justice Smith at a Circuit Court for Franklin county in April 1808. It was an ejectment for four acres of arable land, four acres of meadow, and twelve acres of woodland, adjoining the town of Strasburg, to which the plaintiff proved the following title. On the 10th of October 1772, a warrant issued to George Gantz, for one hundred acres of land, “ bounded on the south by lands of James Clark, on the east by John Beard, on the west by Andrew Boggs, including a small run or spring rnnnirig out of the North Mountainand on the same day Gantz…
1Opinion of the Court
*Smith J.
delivered a charge to the jury, of which the following is the substance.
I deem it necessary to state two positions which have been taken by the defendants’ counsel, and to neither of which I can subscribe. I hold neither to be law to the extent in which they have been laid down. 1. It is contended that a warrant must describe the land “xoith all certainty,” so as to amount to a survey, or the plaintiff cannot recover after three years, as it is said was determined in Northumberland in the case of a location. It is to be regretted that gentlemen of the bar will not take accurate notes…
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