Bellas v. M'Carty
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Northumberland county. This was an action of ejectment by Hugh Bellas against William M’Carty and others for the undivided three-fourths part of a tract of land in Coal township containing one hundred acres.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Northumberland county. This was an action of ejectment by Hugh Bellas against William M’Carty and others for the undivided three-fourths part of a tract of land in Coal township containing one hundred acres. Each party claimed under the same original title, and under George Derk; the plaintiff by a conveyance from Derk, and the defendants by a sale of the land, as the property of Derk, by the sheriff of Northumberland county upon a testatum venditioni exponas from Union county. George Derk had an equitable title to the land, having held the same upon articles of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
This was an action to recover the-undivided three-fourths part of a tract of land in Coal township, in the county of Northumberland.
The title of. the plaintiff commences with a patent to Samuel Clarke, dated the 11th of April, 1776, from whom he deduces his title, thus: Deed, Clarke to T. Johnson: — Articles of agreement between Johnson and Abraham Cherry, and an assignment by Abraham Cherry to John Cherry: — 28th April 1813, articles of agreement between John Cherry and George Derk, recorded 26th Aug. 1814: —17th April 1815, Saxton and…
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