Coughanour & Glessner v. Bloodgood
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Somerset county. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Anna Bloodgood against John Coughanour, to recover the possession of 307 acres of land. The plaintiff showed a title from the Commonwealth to Benjamin Shoemaker, and a devise from him to his son, Samuel Shoemaker.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Somerset county. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Anna Bloodgood against John Coughanour, to recover the possession of 307 acres of land. The plaintiff showed a title from the Commonwealth to Benjamin Shoemaker, and a devise from him to his son, Samuel Shoemaker. On the 16th December, 1816, Abraham Morrison, as the agent of Samuel Shoemaker, sold the land by articles of agreement to William Hardy, on which a part of the purchase-money was paid. The plaintiff is the daughter and heir-at-law of Samuel Shoemaker, having been intermarried with Francis…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lewis, C. J.
The plaintiff below, in a former action of ejectment between the same parties for the same land, obtained an award on the 4th April, 1839, “ to be released on the payment of $259, with all the costs of suit.” This award remains unreversed and unexecuted. It is .not an ordinary judgment at law. It is regarded as containing also the substance of a decree in equity for the payment of money by one party and the conveyance of the land by the other. As the law stood when this judgment was given it was conclusive of the rights of the parties, and…
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- Baker ex rel. Hazlehurst v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1805
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