Harlan v. Langham
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Blair county: No. 23, to May Term 1871. This was an action of partition to April Term 1868, brought by Solomon Langham and Catharine his wife against Otho Harlan and a number of the other defendants.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Blair county: No. 23, to May Term 1871. This was an action of partition to April Term 1868, brought by Solomon Langham and Catharine his wife against Otho Harlan and a number of the other defendants. A case stated, which exhibited the following facts, was agreed upon and filed in the action:— William Dickey being seised in fee of a tract of 208 acres of land, now in Blair county, died intestate prior to 1837, leaving seven children his heirs at law, of whom Catharine, the wife of Solomon Langham, the plaintiff in this suit, was one. One of the children…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, July 3d 1872, by
Sharswood, J.
No question as to the title of the plaintiffs below to an undivided sixth part of the premises is presented upon this case stated. By the recovery in ejectment and the writ of habere facias thereon, they were put into possession in common with the defendants. The effect of the former proceedings in the Orphans’ Court did not divest the title of the married woman when her husband took the land at the appraisement, and gave his recognisance to the other heirs: Kean v. Ridgway, 16 S. & R. 60. A partition, whether by action or…
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