Collins v. Barclay
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In error from tbe Common Pleas of Cambria. Oct. 20. Ejectment for a moiety of a tract surveyed to Bethel. The plaintiff showed a warrant to Bethel, in 1794, a survey returned in the same year, and a patent in 1796. Also the assessment of taxes from 1808, and a treasurer’s sale in 1822 for the taxes of 1820 and 1821, to plaintiff and another: all the taxes, excepting for these ten years, had been regularly paid.
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In error from tbe Common Pleas of Cambria. Oct. 20. Ejectment for a moiety of a tract surveyed to Bethel. The plaintiff showed a warrant to Bethel, in 1794, a survey returned in the same year, and a patent in 1796. Also the assessment of taxes from 1808, and a treasurer’s sale in 1822 for the taxes of 1820 and 1821, to plaintiff and another: all the taxes, excepting for these ten years, had been regularly paid. He further showed a connected draft of surveys under fifty-two warrants, including Bethels, the leading warrant being Turner’s, which called for certain adjoining tracts, of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnside, J.
The sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth errors assigned, raise the consideration of all the material ques- , tions in this important case. They bring into view the whole title of the plaintiff below, and the instruction of the Common Pleas, upon the various objections to that title. In the first place, the plaintiff gave in evidence a warrant to Samuel Bethel for four hundred acres, of the 28th of January, 1794, adjoining John Vanost on the south. A survey of the 25th of August, 1794, of four hundred and thirty-three acres, one hundred and fifty-three perches, by John Canan, deputy-surveyor,…
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