Carpenter v. Cameron
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the district court of Lancaster county. Ejectment by James Cameron and Rebecca his wife, against Dr Abraham Carpenter, to recover the moiely of a tract of land containing two hundred acres. The facts of the case and the point which arose are minutely detailed in the opinion of the court. Charge of the court to the jury. Hays, President.—Both parties derive their titles from Dr Bar-tram Galbraith, who died in November 1826..
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ERROR to the district court of Lancaster county. Ejectment by James Cameron and Rebecca his wife, against Dr Abraham Carpenter, to recover the moiely of a tract of land containing two hundred acres. The facts of the case and the point which arose are minutely detailed in the opinion of the court. Charge of the court to the jury. Hays, President.—Both parties derive their titles from Dr Bar-tram Galbraith, who died in November 1826.. His father, Samuel S. Galbraith, died intestate, seised of this land in fee, leaving issue three children, James and Bartram by one mother, and Juliet his…
1Opinion of the Court
*56The opinion of thtCourt was delivered by
Huston, J.
he defendants here were plaintiffs below, and brought this ejectment for one undivided half of a tract of land containing two hundred acres.
At the trial, the plaintiffs claimed one-sixt.h part of the land ; and for so much they had a verdict and judgment. . ,
Both parties assumed that the whole tract was, atone time, the property of Samuel S. Galbraith. By his first wife he had two sons, Bartram and James. James died in 1823, unmarried and without issue. After the death of his first wife, Samuel married Juliet Buchanan, who died, leaving one…
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