Hunt v. Devling
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Lycoming county. Roger Devling against Jane Hunt and others. Ejectment for fourteen acres 143 perches of land. Joseph Hunter the elder was the owner of a large tract of land, containing about two hundred acres, which in his lifetime, in 1797, he divided by a line run across the tract; he put his son, Jesse Hunt, in possession of one of the parts, and another of his children, Joseph Hunt, in possession •of one-half of the other part.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Lycoming county. Roger Devling against Jane Hunt and others. Ejectment for fourteen acres 143 perches of land. Joseph Hunter the elder was the owner of a large tract of land, containing about two hundred acres, which in his lifetime, in 1797, he divided by a line run across the tract; he put his son, Jesse Hunt, in possession of one of the parts, and another of his children, Joseph Hunt, in possession •of one-half of the other part. He then made his will as follows: • Item.—“I give my son, Joseph Hunt, fifty acres, on the Bald Eagle place, on the western side of…
1Per curiam
The exceptions to evidence have not been earnestly pressed; nor could they be with a hope of success. The act of Joseph Hunt, the father, in marking a line of division betwixt his children in possession before he devised their portions to them, was certainly evidence of boundary. The possession of the grantee of his daughter Hannah Shade, for a period sufficient to acquire a title by the statute of limitations, and the intermediate conveyance from the sheriff to the plaintiff, sufficiently vested her title in him, to which her conveyance, though executed when she was covert, was admissible as…
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