Dexter v. Billings
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Tioga county: Of July Term 1885, No. 8. Trespass quare clausum fregit, by John M. Dexter and Mary C. Dexter, his wife, for the use of said Mary C. Dexter, against Sarah M. Billings, administratrix of the estate of Silas X. Billings, deceased, to recover damages for the cutting and removing of certain timber from land claimed by plaintiffs. Pleas, not guilty and the Statute of Limitations.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Tioga county: Of July Term 1885, No. 8. Trespass quare clausum fregit, by John M. Dexter and Mary C. Dexter, his wife, for the use of said Mary C. Dexter, against Sarah M. Billings, administratrix of the estate of Silas X. Billings, deceased, to recover damages for the cutting and removing of certain timber from land claimed by plaintiffs. Pleas, not guilty and the Statute of Limitations. On the trial, before Williams, P. J., counsel for plaintiffs offered in evidence the deed of Silas X. Billings and David T. Billings and wife to John M. Dexter and Mary…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
It is claimed by plaintiffs that the land on which the alleged trespasses were committed was part of ten thousand acres of timber land of which Silas Billings in 1853 died seised and intestate, leaving as his heirs at law seven children, among whom were Silas X. Billings, defendant’s intestate, and Mary C. Dexter, one of the plaintiffs, who in 1860 married John M. Dexter; that in 1858 said timber lands were sold for taxes by the treasurer of Tioga county and purchased by Silas X. Billings, who, until his decease in 1879, continued to hold the same, except that portion thereof which in 1862…
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