Parks v. Boynton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
June 15th 1881. Before Sharswood, C. J., Mercur, Gordon, Paxson, Trünkey, Sterrett and Green, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Olearfield county : Of May Term 1881, No. 78. This was an action of ejectment brought July 24th 1877, by Jonathan Boynton against Thomas Parks and the Olearfield Fire Brick Company for a tract of land containing about ten acres, represented by the shaded strip on the plan on next page.
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June 15th 1881. Before Sharswood, C. J., Mercur, Gordon, Paxson, Trünkey, Sterrett and Green, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Olearfield county : Of May Term 1881, No. 78. This was an action of ejectment brought July 24th 1877, by Jonathan Boynton against Thomas Parks and the Olearfield Fire Brick Company for a tract of land containing about ten acres, represented by the shaded strip on the plan on next page. On the trial before Mayer, P. J., the following facts appeared : The Charles Stewart, John Vaughn and’William Lewis tracts were surveyed as one block on June 17th 1793. Its…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
It would be scarcely possible that evidence could more clearly show the location of the land which the plaintiff claimed to recover. The line of 1849 is marked on the ground, both parlies proved it and concede that it is the north boundary of the land in controversy, which is a strip about eight perches wide and.one hundred perches long, bounded on the south by the original line of the John Vaughn survey, as described in the praecipe. In the amended description said line of 1849 is the north boundary, the south is called the original line of the Vaughn survey, and the strip is seven and…
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