Church v. Ruland
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1870. This was an action of ejectment, brought the 26th of July 1867 by Abraham Ruland and Betty Ruland his wife in her right, against Joseph Church and Charlotte Church. The premises claimed in the writ were an undivided sixteenth part of a piece of land in the city of Scranton, containing 40 acres.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1870. This was an action of ejectment, brought the 26th of July 1867 by Abraham Ruland and Betty Ruland his wife in her right, against Joseph Church and Charlotte Church. The premises claimed in the writ were an undivided sixteenth part of a piece of land in the city of Scranton, containing 40 acres. The premises had originally been the property of Thomas Griffin, who, by his will, dated March 27th 1852, and proved April 3d 1854, devised them to his daughter Letta, adding to the devising clause, “ The said daughter Letta is…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Sharswood, J.
— It cannot be maintained, at this late day, that the effect of investing the courts with separate equity powers, to be exercised according to the mode of proceeding in use in the English Court of Chancery, was to divest them of any part of the jurisdiction before possessed by them to afford the same relief through common-law .forms. Equity is still as much a part of the law of Pennsylvania as it was in 1787, when Chief Justice McKean so declared it to be in Pollard v. Shaafer, 1 Dall. 210; Lehr v. Beaver, 8 W. & S. 106. The action of…
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