Maus's Lessee v. Montgomery

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Huston, J.

The plaintiff here, who was also plaintiff below, Philip Maus, claimed on a location, dated the 3d of April, 1769, No. 2297, to Morris Turner, for three hundred acres of land in the forks of Mahoning creek, about two miles from the east branch of Susquehanna, and produced a draught of a survey in October, 1769, but which had not been returned into the surveyor general’s office until 1794. This survey began about a mile from the river, and extended up Mahoning creek, including a narrow strip of land on each side of the creek to the forks,…