Edwards v. Hoopes
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county, to remove the record of an action of ejectment, brought by Samuel Edwards against Joshua Ploopes, to recover a tract of land, situate in that county. In the court below a case was stated as follows, to be considered as a special verdict, without any exception as to the form of action.
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This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Chester county, to remove the record of an action of ejectment, brought by Samuel Edwards against Joshua Ploopes, to recover a tract of land, situate in that county. In the court below a case was stated as follows, to be considered as a special verdict, without any exception as to the form of action. “ Enoch Taylor, late of the township of Upper Providence, in the county of Delaware and state of Pennsylvania, deceased, by his last will and testament, bearing date the 7fh of August, 1800, and proved the 21st of September, 1801, did…
1Opinion of the Court
Sergeant J.
Nathan Taylor,‘one of eight children of Enoch Taylor, deceased, took a tract of land in. Chester county, in a proceeding in partition in the Supreme Courty'which had belonged to his deceased father, at ihe sum of £2126 8s. 4d., at which it had been appraised by the jury, subject to a lien thereon, in favour of the parties to the partition, (consisting of himself and the other children,) for their respective shares under the act of 11th of April, 1799. Nathan Taylor conveyed to Joseph Baker in fee simple. All the right of Baker was afterwards sold by the sheriff on a subsequent…
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