Ogden v. Porterfield
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Venango county. This was an ejectment by John Porterfield against Armstrong Ogden and Joseph Ogden, for 30 acres of land on the west side of, and adjoining, the Allegheny river, in Scrubgrass township, Venango county.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Venango county. This was an ejectment by John Porterfield against Armstrong Ogden and Joseph Ogden, for 30 acres of land on the west side of, and adjoining, the Allegheny river, in Scrubgrass township, Venango county. The tract of land, of which the premises in dispute were a part, was originally settled by John Fritz, under an agreement with John Field, the warrantee, dated the 2d June 1800, whereby it was agreed that when the settlement should be completed, Field should procure a patent for the land, and convey to Fritz 200 ■acres thereof, to he divided by a…
1Opinion of the Court
*194The opinion of the court was delivered
by
Thompson, J.
John Field was the warrantee of the tract of land out of which has grown the present controversy. On the 2d of June 1800, he leased it to one John Fritz, who engaged to complete the settlement required by the Act of 1792, the land being situate on the west bank of the Allegheny river. When the settlement should be completed, Field was to procure a patent for the tract, and to make a conveyance of 200 acres to Fritz, the settler, to include his improvements. About the years 1819 or 1820, Fritz procured a survey of the tract to be made, and…
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