Reed v. Dickey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
The purchaser of a title, perfect on its takes it discharged of every equity of which he had no notice : but if it be the purchase of an inchoate or defective title, he can claim to be in no better situation than he from whom he purchased. face, for a valuable consideration, If he who commences an actual settlement assents to its completion by another, for the use of a third person, and the settlement is so completed, that third person, having procured a warrant, survey and…
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The purchaser of a title, perfect on its takes it discharged of every equity of which he had no notice : but if it be the purchase of an inchoate or defective title, he can claim to be in no better situation than he from whom he purchased. face, for a valuable consideration, If he who commences an actual settlement assents to its completion by another, for the use of a third person, and the settlement is so completed, that third person, having procured a warrant, survey and patent, has a perfect title. ERROR to the common pleas of Armstrong county. The facts of the case are fully stated in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff in error in the court below, to recover the possession of a tract of land lying in Armstrong county, west of the Alleghany river. He claimed under a warrant of acceptance granted to Archibald M’Call 3d July 1795, who at that time paid the purchase money to the state for the land. The warrant was founded upon a survey of this land made by Stephen Gapin, the deputy surveyor of the district in which it lay, on the 30th of August 1794, for Nicholas Day, as an actual settler under the act…
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