Sample v. Coulson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of York county. This was an action of ejectment by William Coulson against Joseph and Cunningham Sample, for 35 acres of land.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of York county. This was an action of ejectment by William Coulson against Joseph and Cunningham Sample, for 35 acres of land. On the trial of the cause the plaintiff’ proved that John Sample, Sen. died in possession of the land, and that he had levied upon it since 1808; and then gave in evidence the proceedings of the Orphans’ Court, by which it was ordered to be sold by his administrators, and in pursuance thereof a deed from them to Patrick Scott, dated 2d November 1824; and then offered in evidence the record of a former ejectment for the same land, brought to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
The principal question in this case arises on the 1st and 2d errors, embracing the 4th and 5th bills of exception. The present suit was brought by William Coulson in his own right to recover 35 acres of land which he claimed under a deed made to him in December 1840, by T. S. Williamson, whose title was derived from a sale by the executor of Patrick Scott, by order of the Orphans’Court,on the petition of Scott’s heirs in March 1839. A former ejectment had been brought to November 1829, in the Common Pleas of York county, by William Coulson,…
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