Martin v. Hughes
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania. This was an action in ejectment by John C. Martin against Charles A. Hughes and others. There was a judgment for defendants, from which the plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BUTLER, District Judge.
The plaintiff brought ejectment under a title from the commonwealth, in pursuance of a warrant issued to Isaac Brennan. March. 25, 1794, a survey thereunder by Deputy Surveyor George Woods, a return of this survey by his successor in office, in 1808, and a patent based thereon soon after. Three other warrants were issued contemporaneously with Brennan’s, one of them to Richard Bmith, another to William Smith and a third to John Nicholson, for lands in the same locality, and surveys made in pursuance of them by Woods contemporaneously with the survey for Brennan. Woods…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Lessee of Drinker v. HollidaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1796
- Norris v. HamiltonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
- Lessee of Porter v. FergusonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1800
- Smay v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1829
3Cited by2 opinions
- Patillo v. Allen-West Commission Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1904
- Martin v. HughesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1899