Goodman v. Sanger
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia county: Of May Term 1877, No. 87. Ejectment by John H. Goodman against John Sanger, for a tract of land situate in Conyngham toAvnship in Columbia county, containing 400 acres.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia county: Of May Term 1877, No. 87. Ejectment by John H. Goodman against John Sanger, for a tract of land situate in Conyngham toAvnship in Columbia county, containing 400 acres. A Avarrant Avas issued January 10th 1794 to Johnston Besely for 400 acres in Northumberland county; a survey Avas made for this tract on the Catawissa creek, in that county, and on October. 16th of that year, a patent for the same Avas granted to Robert Morris. By virtue of an Act of Assembly the county of Columbia Avas, in September 1813, erected out of Northumberland…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
In this case only one question may be considered, that is, whether there was sufficient evidence of a redemption of the land by the heirs of Philip Meyer, or by the Bank of the United States, from the tax .sale in 1816 to the commissioners of Northumberland county. That a presumption of a grant or an abandonment of title may arise from lapse of time and non-claim, when these point to the fact as a probable thing, is not disputable. The cases cited by the defendant in error prove this. Many precedents will be found collected and commented upon in Carter v. Tinicum Fishing Co., 27 P. F. Smith…
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