Gourley v. Kinley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong county: No, 65, of October and November Term 1870. This was an action of ejectment by James Kinley, by his guardian James Hunter, against Harrison Grourley and Sarah Grourley, brought to June Term 1868. James Kinley, being the owner of the land in controversy, died intestate, leaving a widow, Sarah, defendant (who afterwards married Harrison Grourley, the other defendant), and a son, the plaintiff, for whom James Hunter was…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong county: No, 65, of October and November Term 1870. This was an action of ejectment by James Kinley, by his guardian James Hunter, against Harrison Grourley and Sarah Grourley, brought to June Term 1868. James Kinley, being the owner of the land in controversy, died intestate, leaving a widow, Sarah, defendant (who afterwards married Harrison Grourley, the other defendant), and a son, the plaintiff, for whom James Hunter was appointed guardian by the Orphans’ Court. The wife continued in possession of the land. The plaintiff having given the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, February 9th 1871, by
Williams, J.
— This was an ejectment for 135 acres of. land in Cowanshannock township, in the county of Armstrong. It was shown by the evidence given on the trial that James Kinley died in the fall of 1849 intestate, seised of the land in controversy, leaving a widow, Sarah, now intermarried with Harrison Gourley, the defendants in the ejectment, and the plaintiff, his only son and heir at law, surviving; that James Hunter was appointed his guardian, on the 27th of March 1868, by the Orphans’ Court of Armstrong county; and that the…
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