Brock v. Savage
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Huntingdon county. This was an action of ejectment by John Penn Brock against John Savage, to recover the possession of a tract of land in Union township, Huntingdon county, warranted in the name of Mary Fred, containing four hundred acres. He showed the warrant and survey, and a patent dated 25tlr Dec. 1796, to Charles Young, reciting a deed poll from the warrantee. He also showed a regular chain of title from the patentee to himself.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Huntingdon county. This was an action of ejectment by John Penn Brock against John Savage, to recover the possession of a tract of land in Union township, Huntingdon county, warranted in the name of Mary Fred, containing four hundred acres. He showed the warrant and survey, and a patent dated 25tlr Dec. 1796, to Charles Young, reciting a deed poll from the warrantee. He also showed a regular chain of title from the patentee to himself. The defendant claimed the land under the same original title, and proved that on the 15th, 18th, 21st, and 24th March 1794,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lowrie, C. J.
The history of these titles, so far as it is important here, commences with the contract in 1794 by Chambers and McNutt to obtain for Wilson patents for ninety-six tracts. These tracts are all united by this contract into one subject-matter as between the parties; and to understand their history we must regard them as a unit, and divide them only as we find the parties dividing them. How have the parties dealt with the subject-matter of their contract, will be found a very important question in this case; and it is a natural suggestion of…
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