Whitcomb v. Hoyt
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Tioga county. This was an ejectment brought by Lyman P. Hoyt against Charles S. Whitcomb, Julius Kirkendall, William W. Ballard, and William B. Middaugh, for a tract of land in Middleburg township, containing sixty acres.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Tioga county. This was an ejectment brought by Lyman P. Hoyt against Charles S. Whitcomb, Julius Kirkendall, William W. Ballard, and William B. Middaugh, for a tract of land in Middleburg township, containing sixty acres. The land claimed in this action was part of a larger tract, well defined, and marked upon the ground, known as the “Uriah Leet lot,” containing 246x% acres; and until the 18th September 1854, it was vacant or unappropriated land, the title to which had never been taken from the Commonwealth. Previous to 1830, one Uriah Leet went upon this lot,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thompson, J.
— The land in controversy was part of a larger tract, containing 250 acres, settled in 1830 by Uriah Leet, by residence, cultivation, and raising grain, pursuant to the Act of 30th December 1786, and continuously kept up until September 1852, by those from whom the plaintiffs in error derived their title. The last of the houses which had been built on the larger tract, and which was occupied by a tenant of Beckwith, was about this time taken down, and rebuilt a short distance from where it formerly stood, but a few feet outside the line of…
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