Sager v. Mead
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 371, Jan. T., 1895, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Warren Co., Sept. T., 1891, No. 57, on verdict for defendant. Ejectment for a tract of two hundred and seventy acres of land in Glade township. At the trial the court directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of defendant.
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Appeal, No. 371, Jan. T., 1895, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Warren Co., Sept. T., 1891, No. 57, on verdict for defendant. Ejectment for a tract of two hundred and seventy acres of land in Glade township. At the trial the court directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of defendant. Mayer, P. J., of the 25th district, specially presiding, subsequently filed the following opinion, by which and by the opinion of the Supreme Court, the facts appear: After the evidence was closed and the arguments of counsel made, the court directed a verdict for the defendant, and we now put on…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green,
The land for which the present action of ejectment is brought was part of a large body of land containing in the whole about a thousand acres. According to the testimony of all the witnesses on both sides, the great bulk of it was wild land, quite hilly, steep and rocky on the river side, most of the timber cut off in 1872, and according to the testimony of the plaintiffs having about one hundred and fifty to two hundred acres of cleared land, but according to the testimony of the defendant having at the time only about one hundred acres of cleared land, about…
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