Wetherill v. Seitzinger
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ON the 1st April 1830, Jacob W. Seitzinger conveyed to Samuel P. Wetherill in fee, an undivided third of 8182⅜ acres and allowance, part of the Broad Mountain tract in Schuylkill county.
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ON the 1st April 1830, Jacob W. Seitzinger conveyed to Samuel P. Wetherill in fee, an undivided third of 8182⅜ acres and allowance, part of the Broad Mountain tract in Schuylkill county. In the following spring, under two deeds from Nathaniel P. Hobart and wife, the said Samuel P. Wetherill, at the request of the said J. W. Seitzinger, acquired the legal fee in four undivided fifths of a “ coal reserve” or privilege of mining for coal in (inter alia) 91 acres 16 perches strict measure, in Norwegian township, in the same county. By three letters written and signed by Wetherill in his lifetime,…
1Per curiam
The court are of opinion that under the statutes *180of this Commonwealth in that behalf provided, the court is possessed of jurisdiction of the contract in the petition mentioned, upon the proofs therein mentioned heretofore certified for record in the county of Schuylkill. Whereupon it is ordered, decreed and considered, that the demurrer of Jacob W. Seitzinger be overruled, and that the petitioner, Charlotte W. Wetherill, have leave to execute a conveyance to the said Jacob W. Seitzinger and his heirs, of the lands, tenements and hereditaments in the petition mentioned, according to the prayer…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Mussleman's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870