Hoover v. Lock
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Huntingdon County. This was an ejectment by Elias Hoover vs. John William Lock and Simon Lock, for a tract of land. The defendants claimed under a settlement commenced by John Lock, in or about 1804 or 1805. They showed a warrant by John Lock, in August, 1846, for 400 acres, and surveyed in that month, on the land in dispute.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Huntingdon County. This was an ejectment by Elias Hoover vs. John William Lock and Simon Lock, for a tract of land. The defendants claimed under a settlement commenced by John Lock, in or about 1804 or 1805. They showed a warrant by John Lock, in August, 1846, for 400 acres, and surveyed in that month, on the land in dispute. The survey was regularly returned into the land office in August, 1846. The warrant calls for and dates the improvement back to the first of March, 1802, by commencing interest on his purchase from that date. Hoover, the plaintiff, claimed…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Burnside, J.
I throw out of this case the consideration of the applications of Brown and Harrison of 1767. These surveys were made before the revolution. Both parties settled, and held adverse to them. Neither are the owners of these ancient surveys, and both parties rely on their improvements, and subsequent warrants and surveys.
The improvement of Ramsey, under which the plaintiff claims, is the oldest, but it was often without an actual resident settler. It appears that he claimed the land in question in 1813, when he had a private survey made, which…
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- Lessee of Paxton v. PriceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1795
- Lessee of Hamilton v. M'Culloch, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Alleghany County1795