Coxe v. Deringer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1876, No. 55. Certified from Eastern District. This Avas an ejectment for a tract of land in Sugarloaf toAvnship, Luzerne county, in the warrantee name of Samuel Rope, containing about four hundred a'cres, brought by Theophilus T. Deringer and others, the heirs and legal representatives of Henry Deringer, deceased, against Charles S. Coxe and others.
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Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county: Of January Term 1876, No. 55. Certified from Eastern District. This Avas an ejectment for a tract of land in Sugarloaf toAvnship, Luzerne county, in the warrantee name of Samuel Rope, containing about four hundred a'cres, brought by Theophilus T. Deringer and others, the heirs and legal representatives of Henry Deringer, deceased, against Charles S. Coxe and others. The action was brought in May 1872, and was heard by this court in March 1875, upon a former Avrit of error taken by the defendants below to a judgment in favor of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
It will be sufficient to consider the four propositions presented by the plaintiffs in error, instead of discussing the specifications of error in detail.
The first proposition cannot be sustained. There were facts to be submitted to the jury on the question whether the requirements of the Act of 29th March 1824 had been complied with by the commissioners, in making the sale to Henry Deringer of June 5th 1827. There had been no actual possession of the Samuel Rope tract until very recently. Henry Deringer had paid the taxes regularly on this tract, with a slight exception, for nearly forty…
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