Sorber v. Willing

ERROR to the common pleas of Luzerne county. This was an action of ejectment by Richard Willing against Philip and Jacob Sorber. The plaintiff exhibited a perfect legal title to the land. The defendants relied upon the statute of limitations, and to avail themselves of it, proved that their father had gone upon the land in 1812, and built a saw-mill, which continued in operation about four years, when the dam was carried away by a freshet, and he, residing upon another tract of land about one mile off, continued to use the land by cutting timber from it every year; the saw-mill went to decay,…