Metcalf v. Buck
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 13, March T., 1908, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Wyoming Co., Jan. T., 1906, No. 139, on verdict for plaintiff in case of H. F. Metcalf v. Emma M. Buck. Ejectment for land in Lemon township. Before Ferris, J., specially presiding. At the trial it appeared that Dr. E. L. Dieffenderfer, in 1882, became the owner of a tract of land bordering on the shores of Lake Carey, and that he caused this land to be laid out in lots by T. A. Miller, a surveyor.
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Appeal, No. 13, March T., 1908, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Wyoming Co., Jan. T., 1906, No. 139, on verdict for plaintiff in case of H. F. Metcalf v. Emma M. Buck. Ejectment for land in Lemon township. Before Ferris, J., specially presiding. At the trial it appeared that Dr. E. L. Dieffenderfer, in 1882, became the owner of a tract of land bordering on the shores of Lake Carey, and that he caused this land to be laid out in lots by T. A. Miller, a surveyor. Both plaintiff and defendant claimed under deeds from Dieffenderfer. -The facts relating to the conflicting boundaries are…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The plaintiff’s case depends upon the true location of the block of lots plotted by T. A. Miller, a surveyor for Dr. Dieffenderfer, who owned the whole tract. He received a deed from Diéffenderfer October 14, 1889, for a lot having a width of fifty feet and a depth of about 166 feet, referred to in the deed as “lot No. 5, on plot or map made by Thomas A. Miller for the-grantor hereof.” A map proved by a witness to have been made by Thomas A. Miller, showing a division of the land into lots, was offered in evidence and according to it the plaintiff’s lot had a course…
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