M'Cormick v. M'Murtrie
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Huntingdon county. This was an action of ejectment by David M’Murtrie, against David M’Murtrie, Jun. and Alexander M’Cormick.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Huntingdon county. This was an action of ejectment by David M’Murtrie, against David M’Murtrie, Jun. and Alexander M’Cormick. The plaintiff claimed under a warrant to George Allen, dated (he 29th of July 1762, on which a survey was made on the 7th of October 1762, by Samuel Findlay, assistant deputy surveyor; and in order to establish the fact that the land in dispute was included within the surv.ey, the plaintiff offered in evidence the field notes of the assistant deputy, after having proved that they were found among his papers after his death, which hapened in…
1Opinion of the CourtSergeant, J.
—The plaintiff below claimed under two titles. The first was a warrant, dated the 29th of July 1762, to George *193Allen, for three hundred acres, on which a survey of that quantify of land was made on the 7th of October 1762, by Samuel Findlay, assistant deputy surveyor, and returned into the surveyor-general’s office on the 7th of January 1763. The defendant claimed pa.it of the land contained in the above warrant and survey, under a warrant to Robert M’Cormick, dated the 16th of July 1816, for sixty acres, including an improvement interest from the 1st of March 1784, on which a survey was…
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