Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. v. Dimock
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Wayne county. This was an action of ejectment by Asa- Dimock against The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, for two hundred and twenty-eight acres of land in Clinton township.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Wayne county. This was an action of ejectment by Asa- Dimock against The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, for two hundred and twenty-eight acres of land in Clinton township. "The plaintiff gave in evidence a warrant from the land office of Pennsylvania, dated September 12th.1851, and a location and survey of the same on 3d of September 1851, covering two hundred and twenty-eight acres and seventy-two perches, in accordance with the description in the warrant, and including a sheet of water called Elk pond. On the 8th of May 1856, the Commonwealth issued a patent…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the coux-t was delivered, by
Woodward, O. J.
On the 11th Februax’y 1794, a warrant issued to John Taggart, which was returned June 27th 1806, as surveyed on two hundred and fifty-eight acres sixty- three perches of land in Clinton township, Wayne county, 44 surrounding Elk pond,” and the pond is laid down as vacant. The figure of the survey is a parallelogram, its longest sides running three hundred and ninety-six perches due north and south, and its shorter sides two hundred and twenty-three perches east and west. These are the exterior lines, and the only ones ever run upon the…
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