Krepps v. Carlisle
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 146 and 261, Jan. T., 1892, by defendants, Wilson Carlisle and Robert Bolen, from judgment of C. P. Fayette Co., June T., 1888, No. 100, on verdict for plaintiffs, Ada. D. Krepps, widow, and Anna Y. Krepps, John B. Krepps, Jr., and Lizzie B. Krepps, children and heirs at law of John B. Krepps, deceased. Ejectment. Before Ewing, J. Before the case was called for trial, the death of Lizzie B. Krepps, one of the plaintiffs, was suggested of record.
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Appeals, Nos. 146 and 261, Jan. T., 1892, by defendants, Wilson Carlisle and Robert Bolen, from judgment of C. P. Fayette Co., June T., 1888, No. 100, on verdict for plaintiffs, Ada. D. Krepps, widow, and Anna Y. Krepps, John B. Krepps, Jr., and Lizzie B. Krepps, children and heirs at law of John B. Krepps, deceased. Ejectment. Before Ewing, J. Before the case was called for trial, the death of Lizzie B. Krepps, one of the plaintiffs, was suggested of record. At the trial, the only question in dispute was as to where upon the ground was the eastern end of the bridge over Dunlap’s creek.…
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Mb. Justice Dean,
By articles of agreement dated the 19th of March, 1829, Neal Gillespie sold to Samuel J. Krepps, for the consideration of $1,400, a piece of land in the borough of Brownsville, Fayette county. The land was described as “situate on the southeast side of Water street in the borough of Brownsville, adjoining lots of Jonathan Binns, George Shuman and others, and now in the tenure of John Snowdon, together with all the bottom land on Dunlap’s creek attached to and adjoining the same, with the exception and reservation of a lot of ground running from the corner of Eli…
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