Overfield v. Christie
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county, in an ejectment brought by Jacob Overfeld against Jerusha Christie and Hugh Osterhout, in which there was a verdict and judgment for the defendants.
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In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county, in an ejectment brought by Jacob Overfeld against Jerusha Christie and Hugh Osterhout, in which there was a verdict and judgment for the defendants. The plaintiff gave in evidence, an application in the name of ’Samuel Lefevre, dated the 3d April, 1769, on which a survey was made 4th October, 1773, and a patent issued to Joseph Wharton 17th August, 1784. On the 7th June, 1813, Joseph Wharton conveyed to the plaintiff, in consideration of 122 dollars, 50. cents. The defendants claimed under Nathan Abbott, who made a settlement and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Tilghman C. J.
1. By the' Act of Limitations, 26th March, 1785, no person can support an action to recover the possession of land, unless he, or the persons under whom he claims, have had possession within twenty-one years next before the commencement of the suit. . But in .order to protect those persons who derived titles from the State of Pennsylvania, against the unlawful possession of those who in contempt of the Government, pretended to derive title from the State of Connecticut, it was enacted, by the Act of 11th March, 1800, that the Act of 26th…
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