Robeson v. Gibbons
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Union county. Ejectment for three hundred acres of land or thereabouts, bounded by lands late of Charles Hall, and others.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Union county. Ejectment for three hundred acres of land or thereabouts, bounded by lands late of Charles Hall, and others. Tbe plaintiffs in error who were also plaintiffs below, were the heirs of William Bonham, deceased, and on the trial, after having given in evidence a warrant dated September 28th, 1773, in favour of David Emerick, for one hundred acres, and another, dated May 4th, 1774, in favour of David Emmarts, for one hundred and fifty acres, they offered a certified paper dated May 13th, 1828, purporting to be a connected draught of two surveys…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Huston, J.
— The plaintiffs here were plaintiffs below, and showed a warrant in 1773, and another in 1774; also a survey on Mmerick’s warrant, (the one in question,) returned into the surveyor general’s office in 1774, and a patent. ' They also proved that the lines of the survey in question were oh the ground, agreeably to the return of survey, or at least three of them, and that the defendant was residing within those.lines. The defendant showed a warrant in 1809, founded on an improvement in 1802, a survey in 1809, and a patent in 1812. Much…
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