Chadwick v. Phelps
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of McKean county. This was an action of ejectment by Hiram Phelps, Henry P. Hart, and John Eiske against John R. Chadwick, Seneca Freeman, Merrick Housler, and Joseph Housler, for eleven hundred acres of land in Shippen township.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of McKean county. This was an action of ejectment by Hiram Phelps, Henry P. Hart, and John Eiske against John R. Chadwick, Seneca Freeman, Merrick Housler, and Joseph Housler, for eleven hundred acres of land in Shippen township. The plaintiffs claimed the land in controversy under two separate tax sales and conveyances, by the treasurer of McKean county, in 1849 and 1850. The defendants claimed under N. Richmond, who had purchased the land at a treasurer’s sale September 30th 1844, and paid therefor by giving his own note to the treasurer. Richmond died October 13th…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by
Thompson, J.
Supposing the Richmond title valid, notwithstanding the circumstances of its origin, and, for my own part, I am of opinion it was, and that the facts disclosed did not bring it within the rule of the cases of Donnell v. Bellas, reported in 10 Barr, and in 1 Jones, at the same page 341 of each book, and again in this court in 10 Casey 160, does it avail the plaintiffs in error anything ? Treating it for the present as valid, was the agreement between the heirs, partly by guardian and partly in person, with Brewster Freeman, of the 15th April…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bayard v. InglisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843