Ferguson v. Bloom
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Clearfield County
No. 129 July Term, 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 57 September Term 1885, C. P. On May 22, 1885, James H. Ferguson brought ejectment against Matthew Bloom and others, his tenants, to recover a parcel of land containing 19 acres and 88 perches, in Ferguson township. Issue. At the trial on May 15, 1888, a verdict was returned for the plaintiff.
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No. 129 July Term, 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 57 September Term 1885, C. P. On May 22, 1885, James H. Ferguson brought ejectment against Matthew Bloom and others, his tenants, to recover a parcel of land containing 19 acres and 88 perches, in Ferguson township. Issue. At the trial on May 15, 1888, a verdict was returned for the plaintiff. The judgment entered on this verdict was reversed, with a venire de novo, on October 7, 1889: See Bloom v. Ferguson, 128 Pa. 362, where plans appear showing the official returns of the surveys involved, and the actual work of the deputy surveyor on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice-Williams:
This case was here in 1889, and is reported in Bloom v. Ferguson, 128 Pa. 362. The controversy then was, as it now is, over the boundary between the Steiner and Scott surveys. The eastern terminus of this line, the white oak, the common corner of these surveys, is on the ground, but the line westerly from the white oak is not. The question presented is, how shall this line be located ? Shall it be done by means of the original work on the lines of these surveys, and the returns of the deputy surveyor, or by marks made for other tracts, which were neither adopted,…
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