Woods v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Beaver county. This was an action of ejectment brought by Elisha Woods against Joseph Wilson, John Wilson, and George Hicks, to recover the undivided one-seventh part of a tract of land in Moon township, containing about 200 acres. The whole tract was originally settled on by Robert Woods.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Beaver county. This was an action of ejectment brought by Elisha Woods against Joseph Wilson, John Wilson, and George Hicks, to recover the undivided one-seventh part of a tract of land in Moon township, containing about 200 acres. The whole tract was originally settled on by Robert Woods. After his death, John Woods, one of his sons, as early as 1833, claimed exclusive possession of the land, under a purchase from the other heirs of his father; occupied it through tenants, and took out a patent for it, April 1st 1856, when he sold it to Pinney, who made several…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, J.
All the assignments of error in this record present but one point, and that relates to the instructions of the learned judge on the subject of equitable estoppel relied on by the defendants in error, as precluding a recovery against them. It is true this element in the case, considered in the light of the acts of both parties, was announced in answer to points on both sides; still the point is single, and regards the question of estoppel respectively insisted on by the parties. The facts of the case were briefly these.
William Wood, the…
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- Lewis v. BradfordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1840
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