Gonzalus v. Hoover
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. EJECTMENT for a tract of land. This cause was tried at a special Court for the county of Centre, held on the 21st October, ,1817, when it appeared, that the plaintiffs in error, who were also plaintiffs below, c^aimed under a location of the 3d April, 1769, No. 158, in the name of Benjamin Brown, for “ 300 acres of land on north side of Bald Eagle Creek, bounded by the Creek on the SOuth, the Narrows on the north, and the improvement of 7 7 r James Gould on the…
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In Error. EJECTMENT for a tract of land. This cause was tried at a special Court for the county of Centre, held on the 21st October, ,1817, when it appeared, that the plaintiffs in error, who were also plaintiffs below, c^aimed under a location of the 3d April, 1769, No. 158, in the name of Benjamin Brown, for “ 300 acres of land on north side of Bald Eagle Creek, bounded by the Creek on the SOuth, the Narrows on the north, and the improvement of 7 7 r James Gould on the west, about five miles below the Bald Eagle Old Town.” On the 26th April, 1784, Brown conveyed t0 Richard Gonzalus, who…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Tilghman C. J—On
the trial of this cause, in the Court below, the counsel for the plaintiffs took two bills of exceptions, and they have now made three' objections to the charge of the Court.
First bill of exceptions. The defendants offered to prove, by the testimony of Lawrence Bathurst, that in the year 1786, .a certain Paul Wilcot, lived on part of the land in dis*122pute, and also to prove, how long Wilcot lived there, and who were in possession after him, and generally to prove, who were in possession from time to time. The plaintiffs objected to any…
2Cited by1 opinion
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