Hole v. Rittenhouse
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Common Pleas of Columbia county. This was an ejectment brought by James Rittenhouse and John Thompson against Barney Hole.
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Error to tbe Common Pleas of Columbia county. This was an ejectment brought by James Rittenhouse and John Thompson against Barney Hole. The plaintiffs claimed under two warrants dated 11th January, 1793, to Aaron Levy and Mary Weed, the surveys on which were made on the 2d August, 1793, and patented to Walter Stewart 24th March, 1794. The title became vested in Jesse Roberts, who, in 1818 or 1819, moved into a house which stood^n the division line between these two tracts, and continued to reside there until his death, in 1841. His wife and children remained there until the 25th April, 1850,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Lewis, C. J. —
If any principle in the law of Pennsylvania can be regarded as settled by argument and authority, it is that which affirms that the legal title to uncultivated lands draws to it the possession, and that this possession is to be deemed actual for all purposes of remedy, until it is interrupted by an actual entry, and adverse possession taken by another: Miller v. Shaw, 7 Ser. & R. *493134; Barr v. Gratz, 4 Wheat. 213; Mather v. Trinity Church, 3 Ser. & R. 513. It was certainly at one time equally well settled that this legal possession by…
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