Arnold v. Cessna
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
The ejectment in this ease was brought in the Common Pleas of Bedford county, to November Term, 1854. Verdict for plaintiff November 25, 1854. The facts are somewhat complicated. The title to the land in dispute was in Ann Lehman. On the 7th of April, 1818, Ann Lehman and Abraham Lehman entered into articles of agreement for the sale of the land, together with another tract, with Philip Moser and John Exline.
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The ejectment in this ease was brought in the Common Pleas of Bedford county, to November Term, 1854. Verdict for plaintiff November 25, 1854. The facts are somewhat complicated. The title to the land in dispute was in Ann Lehman. On the 7th of April, 1818, Ann Lehman and Abraham Lehman entered into articles of agreement for the sale of the land, together with another tract, with Philip Moser and John Exline. In consideration whereof, the said Moser and Exline bound themselves, jointly, to pay to the said Ann and Abraham the sum of f1000. Upon these articles of agreement an action of covenant…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Knox, J.
This was an action of ejectment. Previous to April, 1818, the title to the land in dispute was in Ann Lehman. On the 7th of April, A. D. 1818, Ann Lehman and her son, Abraham Lehman, sold by articles of agreement to Philip Moser and John Exline two tracts of land — the one for which this action was brought, and a mountain tract — for the consideration of one thousand dollars.
In 1823, an action of covenant was brought by Ann and Abraham Lehman against Philip Moser and John Exline, to recover the unpaid purchase-money. Moser died in 1835, and in…
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