Schenley v. City of Pittsburgh
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county: Of October Term 1883, No. 9T. This was an action of ejectment by Mary E. Schenley against the city of Pittsburgh, to recover possession of a lot of ground in the first ward of said city. Plea, not guilty.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county: Of October Term 1883, No. 9T. This was an action of ejectment by Mary E. Schenley against the city of Pittsburgh, to recover possession of a lot of ground in the first ward of said city. Plea, not guilty. At the trial, before Stowe, P. j., title was admitted to have been in John Penn and John Penn, Jr., in January 1784. The plaintiffs title rested in main upon the following agreement, which was put in evidence : Memorandum of agreement made and agreed upon between John Penn, Jr., and John Penn, both of the city of Philadelphia,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
In January 1784, John Penn, Jr., and John Penn, late proprietaries of Pennsylvania, made an agreement with Isaac Craig and Stephen Bayard fol the sale, inter alia, of a piece of land in the “manor of Pittsburgh, lying and being in a point formed by the junction of the two rivers Monongahela and Allegheny ; bonnded on two sides by the rivers aforesaid, on a third side by the top or ditch of Fort Pitt continued from the Monongahela to the salient angle of the northeast bastion, and thence, on the other side of a ditch, out to the Allegheny, containing three acres more or less.”
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