Stephens v. Huss
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cfreene county. In the court below the case was an action of ejectment at the suit of Barzilla Stephens and Margaret his wife, in her right, against Eleanor A. Huss and others, for the undivided fifth part of two tracts of land containing together 184 acres.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cfreene county. In the court below the case was an action of ejectment at the suit of Barzilla Stephens and Margaret his wife, in her right, against Eleanor A. Huss and others, for the undivided fifth part of two tracts of land containing together 184 acres. The writ was issued December 80th 1861. The same case was before the Supreme Court under the name of Huss v. Stephens, reported in 1 P. F. Smith p. 282, when the judgment of the court below was reversed. It was afterwards tried before Gilmore, P. J.,-when the facts were substantially the same, and the…
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The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Read, J.
In the opinion delivered by the Chief Justice on the •23d of January 1866 (1P. F. Smith 282), on the former hearing of this case, it was held that the present defendants were the grantees in the deed executed by their grandfather, Andrew Lantz, Sr. This question which has been reargued on the present hearing, we shall not reopen, as we consider it settled by the unanimous opinion of the court, which after full reflection we believe to be perfectly correct, and is certainly in strict conformity to the real justice of the case.
There is strong…
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