Lacy v. Hall
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Venango county. This was an action of ejectment, brought November 14th 1857, by Orris Hall and Chapman Hall, against George S. Lacy (impleaded with A. G. Comstock, Patrick Graham, E. B. Flemming, B. F. Lacy, and Abraham Greyton), to recover the undivided moiety of two tracts of land of 1000 acres each, inVenango county, known as the McLeod tract, and numbered 3825 and 3826, in the county map, to which the plea of “not guilty” was entered.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Venango county. This was an action of ejectment, brought November 14th 1857, by Orris Hall and Chapman Hall, against George S. Lacy (impleaded with A. G. Comstock, Patrick Graham, E. B. Flemming, B. F. Lacy, and Abraham Greyton), to recover the undivided moiety of two tracts of land of 1000 acres each, inVenango county, known as the McLeod tract, and numbered 3825 and 3826, in the county map, to which the plea of “not guilty” was entered. The other moiety had been recovered by the same plaintiffs, in a previous action of ejectment, brought for the entirety of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Strong, J.
This was an ejectment for an undivided moiety of two tracts of land, Nos. 3825 and 3826, known as the “McLeod tracts.” It was a second ejectment. The first had been brought for the entirety of the two tracts, as well as for several other parcels of land, and in it the plaintiffs below had recovered against the defendant a verdict and judgment for an undivided moiety of the land in controversy. The attempt in the present case was to recover the remaining moiety which the plaintiffs failed to obtain in the former suit.
The plaintiffs claim…
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