Wallace v. Blair
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland county. Ejectment for a tract of land in Salem township, containing three hundred acres, more or less. Matthew Jack and William Jack were the owners of the land in dispute, as tenants in common. On the 27th October, 1837, they conveyed the land in dispute to Andrew Stormont.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland county. Ejectment for a tract of land in Salem township, containing three hundred acres, more or less. Matthew Jack and William Jack were the owners of the land in dispute, as tenants in common. On the 27th October, 1837, they conveyed the land in dispute to Andrew Stormont. On the 7th March, 1838, Stormont executed a mortgage to Matthew and William Jack, for the payment of eight bonds, for $500 each, and one for $391.14, being the balance of purchase-money, which was recorded 9th March, 1838. On the 16th April, 1838, Matthew Jack obtained…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lewis, J.
— The 6th section of the Act of 1705 does not differ from the 13th section of the Act of 8th April, 1833, in any matter material to the question of republieation. The commissioners on the civil code, in reporting the latter, speak of it as nearly a literal transcript “ from the former, excepting the correction of a mistake, not material to the present question.” 2 Park & Johns. 876. The Act of 1705 contains the words, “repealed, altered or changed;” the Act of 1833 uses the words, “repealed or altered.” The omission of the word “changed” was…
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