Acre v. Gilbert
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county. This was an ejectment by the defendants in error, who were plaintiffs below, against the plaintiffs in error, who- were defendants below, for fifty three acres of land, in which the plaintiffs obtained, a verdict and judgment. The plaintiff’s title to the land was founded on an improvement,, commenced in 1808, without office right or survey.
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IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county. This was an ejectment by the defendants in error, who were plaintiffs below, against the plaintiffs in error, who- were defendants below, for fifty three acres of land, in which the plaintiffs obtained, a verdict and judgment. The plaintiff’s title to the land was founded on an improvement,, commenced in 1808, without office right or survey. The defendants gave the following evidence of their title: A warrant to Jacob Buchman for. one hundred acres of land,, adjoining lands of Michael Ohl, John Sigfrid and James’ land near…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Houston, J.
The plaintiff claimed by an improvement, commenced in eighteen hundred and eight. They had neither office title, nor survey — how they got out of possession did not appear in this court.
The defendants shewed a warrant of the office of the 3d September, seventeen hundred and ninety three, to Jacob Buchman, for one hundred acres of land, adjoining lands of Michael Ohl, J. Sigfried, and James’ land, near Lizard creek, in Northampton county, (at that time the land in question was in Northampton county.) It was admitted that in seventeen hundred…
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