Star v. Bradford
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county, in an action of ejectment brought by Ebenezcr G. Bradford, Esq., against Peter Star, and others, for a tract of land in that part of Berks county, which was divided from Berks county and is now the county of Schuylkill.
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IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill county, in an action of ejectment brought by Ebenezcr G. Bradford, Esq., against Peter Star, and others, for a tract of land in that part of Berks county, which was divided from Berks county and is now the county of Schuylkill. The cause had been tried on the 15th of January, 1812, and a verdict and judgment given for the defendants, upon which a writ of error was sued to May term, 1812. On the 29th of May, 1813, the Supreme Court reversed the judgment, and awarded a venire de novo. " On the 31st July, 1826, a transcript of the •…
1Opinion of the Court
*394The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogues, J.
The plaintiff below has shewn a title to the property, regularly deduced from the commonwealth, and unless the defendant has exhibited an earlier and better title, he is entitled to recover. The defondant gave in evidence an application, dated the 9th April, 1769, on which a survey was made, but at what precise time does not appear, and which was returned into the surveyor general’s office, sometime in the year 1788, after which in 1793, he took possession of the premises.
The plaintiff’s title commenced on a warrant dated the 1st October,…
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