Williams v. Landman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Fayette county. This was an action of ejectment by William Williams against William Shipley and Adam Landman for a tract of land in Henry Clay township, containing 61 acres. The whole case and points put to the court are so fully stated in the opinion of this court that no other statement is deemed necessary.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
Both parties admitted that the title to the land in question had been in Christian Landman. The defendant, Adam Landman, was his son. The plaintiff, Williams, a son-in-law, *56claimed under a contract with old Mr Landman, an old German clergyman, who had become too old to preach; he had a tract of land on or among the ridges of the Allegheny mountain, claimed by settlement without any office or paper title.
The facts were as follows: The old gentleman had made a written contract with another son-in-law named Chitister, by which he had agreed to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Pugh v. GoodSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1841
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