Ball v. Slack
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Aw action of trespass quare clausum fregerunt was brought in this court, to July term 1829, by William White Ball and others against Daniel Slack, John Morrison and John Sansom.
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Aw action of trespass quare clausum fregerunt was brought in this court, to July term 1829, by William White Ball and others against Daniel Slack, John Morrison and John Sansom. On the trial which took place at a Court of Nisi Prius, held at Philadelphia on the 21st of November 1832, it appeared' that the plaintiffs were the children and heirs at law of one Joseph Ball, by whom the title to the land in question was claimed under the following documents, which were given in evidence, viz.: A certificate signed by the deputy surveyor general of the province, and certified to be a true copy from…
1Opinion of the Court
*537The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Hustobt, J.
This was an action of trespass; and the cause turned on the construction of the grant,Or. grants, under which the plaintiffs claimed; for if the right to the locus in quo was in the plaintiffs, the defendants were wrong-doers.
At the opening of 'the case I was disappointed, in that a more careful search for original papers had not been made in the land office, and for the deed from Gunner Rambo to Major George Lillington, and other deeds from that time down. Those papers might, and I still suppose, would have put at rest all the disputed…
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