Stewart v. Shoenfelt
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. On the return of a writ of error from the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county, it appeared that this ejectment was brought by John Shoenfelt, the defendant in error, against Thomas H. Stewart, the plaintiff in error, to recover four hundred acres of land in Hopewell and Woodbury townships.
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IN ERROR. On the return of a writ of error from the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county, it appeared that this ejectment was brought by John Shoenfelt, the defendant in error, against Thomas H. Stewart, the plaintiff in error, to recover four hundred acres of land in Hopewell and Woodbury townships. On the trial, the plaintiff below, after having proved the appointment of Samnul Steel, as treasurer of Huntingdon county, for one year from the 29th of May, 1820, offered in evidence a deed bearing date the 18th July, 1S20, from the said Steel, to William Wilson, for the consideration of…
1Opinion of the CourtTilghman, C. J.
This was an action of ejectment, brought by Jacob Shoenfelt, the plaintiff below, against Thomas II. Stewart, the defendant below and plaintiff in error. The plaintiff claimed under W. Wilson, who purchased of Samuel Steel, treasurer of the county of huntingdon, at a sale of the unseated lands of the said county, on which taxes had been assessed, which were unpaid. On the trial of the cause in the Court of Common Pleas, no less than seventeen points of law were proposed by the defendant’s counsel, to the court, on which opinions in writing were required, to be filed of record, according to…
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