Johns v. Davidson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Mifflin county. This was an- action of ejectment, brought by John M. Davidson vs. William Johns, for an island in the Juniata river, containing about 16 acres.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Mifflin county. This was an- action of ejectment, brought by John M. Davidson vs. William Johns, for an island in the Juniata river, containing about 16 acres. Davidson showed a patent for the island, dated March 12,1841. The defendant Johns resisted the recovery by the said-Davidson on the ground that no part of the island lay within the boundaries of Mifflin county, but that the whole island lay within the boundaries of Huntingdon county, and had always, since the formation of the county of Huntingdon, composed part of that county. The defendant offered to prove…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was filed, July 23, by
Coulter, J.
The application does not describe the improvements. But this, although it is required in the statute, was designed to answer a particular purpose, to wit, to inform the government whether any one was entitled to the preemption under the act of Assembly permitting the appropriation of islands. In this case, the two years during which the preemption was to run had expired long before the application ; and therefore, as regarded the commonwealth, it was of no moment that they should be described, because the island, was to be valued by…
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