M'Coy v. Michew
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Luzerne county. This was an action of ejectment for a tract of land containing 294 acres, by William M’Coy against James Michew and others. The plaintiff claimed under and gave in evidence a warrant to George Cristy for 300 acres, dated the 4th February 1774, and survey thereon of 294 acres, dated 26th May 1774, regularly returned ; this title was regularly vested in the plaintiff.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Luzerne county. This was an action of ejectment for a tract of land containing 294 acres, by William M’Coy against James Michew and others. The plaintiff claimed under and gave in evidence a warrant to George Cristy for 300 acres, dated the 4th February 1774, and survey thereon of 294 acres, dated 26th May 1774, regularly returned ; this title was regularly vested in the plaintiff. The defendants claimed under a warrant and survey in the name of Peter Smith, dated in 1784; also under a warrant and survey in the name of John Thornburg, dated in 1793; also under a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
This is an action of ejectment to recover 294 acres of land under a warrant in the name of George Cristy, dated the 4th February 1774, and a survey dated the 26th May 1774. A regular chain of title is given in evidence from Cristy to the plaintiff, William M’Coy. At the trial the defendants took two grounds of defence: first, they denied that, the Cristy warrant and survey •covered the land in dispute; and next, granting that it does, and that the title was at one time in M’Coy, they contend that it has been devested by divers sales at…
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