Jones v. Hartley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writ of error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the record of an action of ejectment, brought in that Court by David Hartley and Sarah Ann his wife, in her right, Jane Pennel and Edward Pennel, a minor, by Nathan R. Potts, his guardian, and John C. Jones, against Isaac H. Jones, Peter Weyant, Jacob Moore, and Isaac Rush, to recover divers messuages and lots of lands, situate in the city and county of Philadelphia.
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Writ of error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, to remove the record of an action of ejectment, brought in that Court by David Hartley and Sarah Ann his wife, in her right, Jane Pennel and Edward Pennel, a minor, by Nathan R. Potts, his guardian, and John C. Jones, against Isaac H. Jones, Peter Weyant, Jacob Moore, and Isaac Rush, to recover divers messuages and lots of lands, situate in the city and county of Philadelphia. The facts upon which the controversy between the parties arose, were principally as follows: Isaac Jones died on the 29th day of December,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
TMs was an ejectment for houses, lots, &c., in the city and county of Philadelphia; of which a particular description is not necessary. The writ was served on the present plaintiffs in error, who were the defendants named in the writ; and also on sundry other persons who occupied the houses, and whose names the sheriff returned as being in possession: this was under our act of assembly.
Clearly, if we are to judge from the testimony now brought before us, and from the argument of this case when formerly in this Court, the object of the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Black v. DobsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1824
- Wilson's Lessee v. CampbellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1785
- Jack v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1840
- Lessee of Burkhart v. BowSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1804
- Lessee of Steel v. FinleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1801
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- Helfenstein v. LeonardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1865
- Lessee of Burkhart v. BowSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1804
- Lessee of Steel v. FinleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1801