Monongahela Valley Camp Meeting Ass'n v. Patterson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 100. At No. 319, October Term 1876, a judgment was entered in favor of Robert Patterson, the defendant in error, plaintiff below, against John O’Neill, William M. Crump, S. S. Crump, John Adams, Rev. T. M. Royle, John O’Neill, Jr., and R. B. Adams, Esq., the same being an action of ejéctment brought by Patterson against the defendants, alleging that the title to a certain…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 100. At No. 319, October Term 1876, a judgment was entered in favor of Robert Patterson, the defendant in error, plaintiff below, against John O’Neill, William M. Crump, S. S. Crump, John Adams, Rev. T. M. Royle, John O’Neill, Jr., and R. B. Adams, Esq., the same being an action of ejéctment brought by Patterson against the defendants, alleging that the title to a certain grove was in him and not in the defendants. No other person was a party to that action excepting the individuals named.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
The sheriff returned the habere facias possessionem as follows: “ I do hereby certify and return that, as against all the defendants named in the within writ, possession was delivered, but I found in occupancy and possession of said premises a person who did not claim or hold possession under the defendants or any of them, but claimed to hold, and I believe did and does hold, by a paramount title, for and as the Monongahela Yalley Camp Meeting Association, and who refused to deliver up possession of said premises.” To the plaintiff’s petition for an order upon the sheriff to execute said…
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