Tate v. Stooltzfoos
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
His Honour Judge Huston, before whom this cause was tried at a Circuit Court held for Lancaster county in April, 1827, reported it to be an ejectment brought by Samuel Tate and Jane Mary, his wife, against John Stooltzfoos and others, to recover forty-two acres of land in Leacock township, to which the plaintiffs showed title, in right of Jane Mary the wife.
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His Honour Judge Huston, before whom this cause was tried at a Circuit Court held for Lancaster county in April, 1827, reported it to be an ejectment brought by Samuel Tate and Jane Mary, his wife, against John Stooltzfoos and others, to recover forty-two acres of land in Leacock township, to which the plaintiffs showed title, in right of Jane Mary the wife. The defendants claimed under Janies Hamilton, and as a part of their title exhibited a release executed by James Cochran, and Jane Mary, his wife, (since married to Samuel Tate the plaintiff) to the said James Hamilton for the land in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J.
This was an appeal from the decision of Mr. Justice Huston, at a Circuit Court held at Lancaster, April, 1827, *37admitting in evidence the release of James Cochran and Jane Mary, his wife, on an acknowledgment of the instrument by husband and wife, of the 28th of May, 1796, of the wife’s real estate in the following words: — “ James Cochran and Jane Mary, his wife, came before me, the subscriber, one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Lancaster, and acknowledged the within .instrument fo be their act…
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