Bowers v. Bowers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 33. Replevin by Solomon Bowers against Jane Bowers and Henry Bowers, for certain timber cut and removed from a tract of land, &c. The facts set forth in the opinion of this court, together with the following points and answers of the court, sufficiently state the case.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 33. Replevin by Solomon Bowers against Jane Bowers and Henry Bowers, for certain timber cut and removed from a tract of land, &c. The facts set forth in the opinion of this court, together with the following points and answers of the court, sufficiently state the case. The plaintiff presented the following points which the court affirmed: 1. That if John and Solomon Bowers as partners owned and used the standing timber on the whole tract, and the whole business of the partnership was the cutting and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
It is conceded that the timber replevied by the plaintiff below was cut by the defendants upon part of the tract of land which, on June 5th 1858, was conveyed in fee by A. Caldwell et al. to John Bowers, now deceased, the husband of one of the defendants and the father of the other. It is also alleged and not denied that prior to that, in 1848, he had acquired the equitable title, in pursuance of which he took and continued to hold possession of the land. In the absence, therefore, of competent proof that the title of John Bowers either to the land thus acquired or the standing timber thereon…
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