Sheaffer v. Sheaffer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. This was an action of ejectment, brought by John Sheaffer against his brother Charles Sheaffer, to recover 106 acres of land in Pine township, Armstrong county. Both parties claimed under their father George D. Sheaffer, deceased.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. This was an action of ejectment, brought by John Sheaffer against his brother Charles Sheaffer, to recover 106 acres of land in Pine township, Armstrong county. Both parties claimed under their father George D. Sheaffer, deceased. The plaintiff showed a regular chain of title from the Commonwealth down, vesting the title to the land in dispute in George D. Sheaffer, on the 7th day of March 1830. That George D. Sheaffer took possession of the land about the date of his title, and continued therein until about January 1855 ; and that on the 26th…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, J.
The written agreement of the 20th November 1848, between George Sheaffer and his son Charles, was a grant by the father to the son of a leasehold interest in the father’s farm, for the lives of George Sheaffer and his wife, with remainder to Charles in fee simple, on condition that he should take possession of the farm within convenient time; should cultivate it in a proper manner during the lives of his parents; should deliver in the bushel one-third of all the grain raised, excepting only the first three crops on any new land he might…
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