Runyan v. Lessee of Coster
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern' District of Pennsylvania. This was an action of ejectment, brought in the Circuit Court of the District of Pennsylvania, by the defendant in error, the lessee of John S. Coster and Thomas K. Mercien, citizens' of New York, for the recovery of a tract of land in Norwegian township, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, The defendant in the Circuit Court was. in possession of-the .land.
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IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern' District of Pennsylvania. This was an action of ejectment, brought in the Circuit Court of the District of Pennsylvania, by the defendant in error, the lessee of John S. Coster and Thomas K. Mercien, citizens' of New York, for the recovery of a tract of land in Norwegian township, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, The defendant in the Circuit Court was. in possession of-the .land. The title of the lessors of the .plaintiff below was founded on a patent from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, dated December 23, 1824, to Benjamin…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
This case comes up on a writ of error from the Circuit Court, of the .United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
It is an action of ejectment brought to recover possession of about two hundred and thirteen acres of land, in the township of Norwegian, in the county pf Schuylkill. .Upon the trial, the lessors of the plaintiff gave in evidence a warrant'issued by-the secretary of the land office, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, authorizing a survey for Benjamin Pott, for the quantity of land applied for by him, bearing date the 23d of December, in the year 1824. And also a…
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