M'Coy v. Trustees of Dickinson College
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Northumterland county, The Trustees of Dickinson College, the plaintiffs in this claimed under an application entered in the land office the 3d April, 1769, and a survey executed the 9th July, 1772, and returned the 28th August, 1772. The land had not been patented.
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In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Northumterland county, The Trustees of Dickinson College, the plaintiffs in this claimed under an application entered in the land office the 3d April, 1769, and a survey executed the 9th July, 1772, and returned the 28th August, 1772. The land had not been patented. When the plaintiffs had finished their evidence, the defendant offered to prove a possession in himself and those under whom he claimed, adverse to the plaintiffs, from the year 1787 to the commencement of this suit. This evidence was objected to by the plaintiffs, and rejected by…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Tilghman C. J.
By the act for the limitation of actions, passed the 26th March, 1785, no person shall hav.e *305or maintain any real or possessory writ or action, for any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, of the seisin or possession of himself, or his ancestors or predecessors, nor dédare or allege any other seisin or possession • of himself, his ancestors or predecessors, than within 21 years next before such writ or action, hereafter to be sued, commenced, or brought. The evidence offered by the defendant went directly to prove, that neither the…
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