Over v. Lindsay
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 124, Jan. T., 1916, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Blair Co., March T., 1913, No. 150, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Virginia Over, Mary Myers, Ella G. Fry and William M. Over v. Walter E. Lindsay. Ejectment for a parcel of land in Blair County. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for plaintiff for the land in dispute and judgment thereon. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were instructions to the jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Walling,
This is an action of ejectment for a triangular piece of land in Hollidaysburg, of which Henry B. Martin is the common source of title. In 1864 he was the owner of a tract of land in said borough containing about nine acres; and that year made a deed to Hugh McNeal for the easterly part of said tract, the description therein as originally drawn being as follows, yiz:
“All that lot or parcel of ground or lots or parcels of ground situated in the Borough of Hollidaysburg in the County and State aforesaid. Described and Bounded as follows namely, On the West by a…
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