Shepherd v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THE court sat at Harrisburg to determine this case, in pursuance of an act of assembly, passed on the 28th March, 1814. Shepherd and Dorr anee claimed 12,328 acres and 15 perches of land in Claverack, one of the seventeen townships of Luzerne county, by virtue of two certificates from the commissioners of the commonwealth, one issued in favour of Shepherd for an undivided moiety of the whole, dated January 2d, 1807, and signed by Thomas Cooper and John M. Taylor: the other…
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THE court sat at Harrisburg to determine this case, in pursuance of an act of assembly, passed on the 28th March, 1814. Shepherd and Dorr anee claimed 12,328 acres and 15 perches of land in Claverack, one of the seventeen townships of Luzerne county, by virtue of two certificates from the commissioners of the commonwealth, one issued in favour of Shepherd for an undivided moiety of the whole, dated January 2d, 1807, and signed by Thomas Cooper and John M. Taylor: the other in favour of Dorrance for the remaining moiety, dated January 1st, 1808, and signed by John M. Taylor and Alexander…
1Opinion of the Court
On the 10th October, 1814, the Court delivered their opinions..Tilghman C. J.
(After stating the case).' The applicants ■have complied on their part with every thing required by law, and now demand their patent agreeably to the certificate and survéy returned, by the commissioners. To this several objec.tions are made on behalf of the commonwealth. It is said that the.first certificate is void, because Thomas Cooper was not a ■commissioner at the. time he signed it-, and that the second is void, because Alexander Scott being interested, could not lawfully act as a commissioner. These…
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