Wolf v. Ament's
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR'to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland county.' This was an action of ejectment, in which the plaintiff in error was defendant below. The facts of the case are fully stated in the opinion of the court, delivered May IT, 1855.
1Opinion of the CourtLowrie, J.
— Wolf was the defendant below, and the action is ejectment. He had a survey made for himself of part of the plaintiff’s land, and the boundaries marked. Afterward, in 1799, he entered upon the land, claiming it as his own, improved, fenced, and cultivated part of it; and, as it is admitted, “openly, notoriously, and exclusively used the woodland of the residue, as farmers usually do,” for more than twenty-one years before suit brought. The plaintiff entered upon his tract in 1816, without interfering with the defendant’s occupancy, and has kept up an actual occupancy of the rest of his tract…
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- Bell v. HartleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1842
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