Hunt v. Wall
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Wyoming county: No. 185, to January Term 1874. This was an action of ejectment for 50 acres of land in Falls township, Wyoming county, commenced June 18th 1870, by Dennis Wall and others against Stephen Hunt. The plaintiffs were heirs at law of Celinda Hubbard, formerly Headley, deceased.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Wyoming county: No. 185, to January Term 1874. This was an action of ejectment for 50 acres of land in Falls township, Wyoming county, commenced June 18th 1870, by Dennis Wall and others against Stephen Hunt. The plaintiffs were heirs at law of Celinda Hubbard, formerly Headley, deceased. The land in dispute was part of a tract of 329 acres, surveyed to Robert Taylor and patented to- John Ewing. 150 acres of the tract through a tax sale became the property of Samuel Headley, on the 16th of June 1827. February 18th 1831 he devised 50 acres, the land in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 11th 1874, by
Mercur, J.
This was an action of ejectment brought by the heirs of Celinda Hubbard. The land in question was devised to her in 1831; she was then the wife of Sylvester Hubbard, and so continued to the time of her death in 1835. During this interval of time, she sold, by a parol contract to one Quince, twenty-five acres thereof. During her life, Quince took possession of the land so purchased, and perhaps of all the land in controversy. The *415possession then taken by Quince was continued by him, and by persons claiming under him, without…
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