Strawbridge v. Cartledge
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Columbia county. Charles Cartledge against James Strawbridge. Ejectment for 166 acres of land. Lewis W. H. Geise was originally the owner of the land, and each party claimed under his title.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Columbia county. Charles Cartledge against James Strawbridge. Ejectment for 166 acres of land. Lewis W. H. Geise was originally the owner of the land, and each party claimed under his title. The plaintiff gave in evidence a deed of Lewis W. H. Geise and wife to Moses Potter, dated the 20th November 1839, for the land in dispute, for the consideration of $6660; a deed from Moses Potter and wife to John P. Adams, dated 9th Dec. 1839, for the same land, in consideration of $6660; a deed of John P. Adams and wife to Moses Potter, dated 13th May 1840, for the same…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The first error is a bill of exception to the opinion of the court admitting in evidence a deed of grant, bargain and sale from Moses Potter to Charles Cartledge, the defendant in error, who was the plaintiff below, for the land in contest, in consideration of $5 therein mentioned, as also in consideration of a deed of indenture recited to have been made on the same day, by the same to the same, whereby, for the consideration and upon the conditions therein named, the former conveyed to the latter all the estate and'property, real, personal…
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