Patterson v. Ross
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Beaver county. This was an ejectment instituted on 24th May, 1837, by James Patterson v. Thomas Ross, Samuel Ross and others, for 150 acres of land or thereabouts, situate in Brighton township, Beaver county.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Beaver county. This was an ejectment instituted on 24th May, 1837, by James Patterson v. Thomas Ross, Samuel Ross and others, for 150 acres of land or thereabouts, situate in Brighton township, Beaver county. The plaintiff claimed the land in dispute, under a warrant to Joseph Williams, dated 3d April, 1792, “for 400 acres of land north and west of the rivers Ohio and Allegheny and Conewango creek, on the west bank of Big Beaver creek, and to include the Walnut Bottom lying on the run that falls into said creek nearly opposite an island between the Big and Little.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Knox, J.
The Joseph Williams warrant, upon which the plaintiff’s title was based, bears date the 3d April, A. D. 1792, and is for four hundred acres of land north and west of the rivers Ohio and Allegheny, and Conewango creek, on the west bank of Big Beaver creek, and to include the walnut bottom lying on the run that falls into said creek nearly opposite an island between the Big and Little Falls, by estimation one mile above the Block House.
It was contended, upon the trial, that this was a descriptive warrant, and that the title commenced from its…
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