Mason v. Ammon
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR -TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF UNION COUNTY. No. 235 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 54 March Term 1885, C. P. This was a summons in ejectment served on February 28, 1885, in an action by Mary Mason, Elizabeth J. Mason and Martha Mason, heirs and devisees of John Ditty, deceased, against Daniel R. Ammon and Mrs. Mary Murty, to recover a lot of ground on South Second street in the borough of Lewis-burgh. On May 19, 1885, Wm.
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ERROR -TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF UNION COUNTY. No. 235 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 54 March Term 1885, C. P. This was a summons in ejectment served on February 28, 1885, in an action by Mary Mason, Elizabeth J. Mason and Martha Mason, heirs and devisees of John Ditty, deceased, against Daniel R. Ammon and Mrs. Mary Murty, to recover a lot of ground on South Second street in the borough of Lewis-burgh. On May 19, 1885, Wm. H. Marr was added as a defendant. The plea was not guilty. On the trial,.March 9, 1886, the plaintiffs showed title in John A. Reed and deed from…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Gobdon:
None of the assignments of error in this case can be sustained except that which covers the answer to the defendant’s third point; which point and answer are as follows: “ That under the evidence in this case the plaintiffs cannot recover.” Answer, “ Affirmed.” Whether Ralph Ditty, and those claiming under him, had that kind of continuous, notorious and hostile possession of the premises in dispute as would give them title under the statute of limitations, was, under all the evidence, a question for the jury, and ought so to have been submitted. Originally…
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