Reiter v. McJunkin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal No. 198, Oct. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1894, No. 514, on verdict for plaintiff. Ejectment for a narrow strip of land along the boundary line between plaintiff’s . and defendant’s farm in Plum township. Before Porter, J. ■ At the trial defendant claimed title by adverse possession-for over twenty-one years.
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Appeal No. 198, Oct. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1894, No. 514, on verdict for plaintiff. Ejectment for a narrow strip of land along the boundary line between plaintiff’s . and defendant’s farm in Plum township. Before Porter, J. ■ At the trial defendant claimed title by adverse possession-for over twenty-one years. There was evidence tending to show that a fence had been maintained as a division or line fence between the farms for more than half a century, and that each owner had claimed up to this fence without the slightest objection on the…
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Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
This is a controversy between neighbors over a very narrow strip of land lying along the boundary line between them. Their farms are on adjoining warrants. The elder of these was located in 1773 by an ancestor of the defendant, and the title to the farm on which he now resides has been in the descendants of the warrantee continuously from the time of its original location to the present. The warrant on which the plaintiff’s farm is, was located about 1790 as an adjoiner of the elder warrant, and the line as run in 1773 became thereby the boundary of the younger…
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