Campbell's v. Patterson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 235. In Equity. Bill in equity filed by T. H. Baird Patterson against William H. Campbell.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 235. In Equity. Bill in equity filed by T. H. Baird Patterson against William H. Campbell. The following is an abstract of the bill: That on or about July 1st 1872, the defendant, William H. Campbell caused to be subdivided and laid out into a plan of lots a tract of land, in Allegheny county, near Walls Station, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, being part of a larger tract conveyed to defendant, &c., and reciting the title of defendant thereto, and that a copy of the plan so • laid out is…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
By deed acknowledged August 17th 1872, Campbell conveyed the land to Patterson and Reed, “ with the right of way over a private road or street, forty feet wide, from the said township road, along outside of the first described four lines of this piece of ground.” In October following he conveyed the adjoining lands to Hampton, Routh and others, reserving the right of way before granted over said private road. After these conveyances, he wrote in the deed to Patterson and Reed this addition to the description: “And being section C in a plan of subdivision of part of said larger tract to be…
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