Kribbs v. Downing
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Clarion county. This was an ejectment for 3§'0 acres of land, brought by James Downing and others agains't George Kribbs and others. In 1801, or 1802, a man by the name of Samuel Parker commenced an improvement on the land in dispute. He deadened some trees and commenced the building of a cabin, but had no residence or cultivation on the land.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Clarion county. This was an ejectment for 3§'0 acres of land, brought by James Downing and others agains't George Kribbs and others. In 1801, or 1802, a man by the name of Samuel Parker commenced an improvement on the land in dispute. He deadened some trees and commenced the building of a cabin, but had no residence or cultivation on the land. In 1805, Sally Cook, a single woman, entered upon the land, and, with the aid of her brothers, commenced a resident settlement upon the land — built a cabin — cleared land and resided upon the tract. In October of the same…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court--was,delivered by.
Brack, J.
If the law. would n.ot take a- simpler-view of human; affairs than the parties, and counsel seem to have taken of this’ case, the administration.of justice would; soon become an imprac-. ticable. thing.
About the beginning of the,-present century a dispute- arose.concerning a tract of, land,- between one Sally Cook and ■ Samuel Parker, each, claiming, to - be entitled-to it-by. a, settlement , right,, The dispute grew- into, .a. quarrel,,.which ended in the forcible evic-;tion of one • party.- an.d;, a, criminal, prosecution against .the -…
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