Bannon v. Brandon
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Venango county.. 'This was an ejectment by Elliott Brandon against Wallace Bannon and others, for a tract of 400 acres of land.in Sugar Creek township, Venango county.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Venango county.. 'This was an ejectment by Elliott Brandon against Wallace Bannon and others, for a tract of 400 acres of land.in Sugar Creek township, Venango county. The tract in question was originally surveyed to William Wilson, by virtue of a warrant dated the-19th March 1796. Wilson conveyed to David Mead and Oliver Ormsby, to whom a patent was issued on the 4th April 1801. In 1806, David Mead and wife conveyed their interest in the land to Ormsby. About the year 1801, Oliver Ormsby placed James Bowles, an old soldier, upon the land, as his tenant. Bowles…
1Opinion of the Court
*266The opinion of the court was delivered by
Strong, J.
Three errors have been assigned to the charge of the Court of Common Pleas in this case; we shall notice each, though not precisely in the order in which they have been assigned.
In the court below, the plaintiff, now defendant in error, set up a title under the statute of limitations, alleged to have been acquired prior to the 7th of June 1842. The contest was in regard to the point of time when the adverse possession commenced. From about the year 1801, until March 1815, the land had been in the occupancy of James Bowles, who held it as the…
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