Luffborough v. Parker
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer county, in which the plaintiff in error, Nathan Luffborough, was plaintiff below, and William Parker and Joseph Junkin, the defendants. Ejectment for donation lot, No. 927, Fifth District, containing two hundred acres.
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IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer county, in which the plaintiff in error, Nathan Luffborough, was plaintiff below, and William Parker and Joseph Junkin, the defendants. Ejectment for donation lot, No. 927, Fifth District, containing two hundred acres. At the trial John Forquer, .one of the jurors, was challenged by the plaintiff, on the ground of his having stated that he was a purchaser of a lot sold for taxes in the year 1820, it being admitted that.the title .under which the defendants claimed, was a deed made to one of the defendants, Joseph Junkin, as purchaser at a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
None of the errors merit particular consideration but two; the others relating to official documents found in their *359place, or to evidence incontestibly competent. My remarks, therefore, shall be confined to these two.
To show that notice of the sale under which the'plaintiff claims had been given, the counsel produced the Crawford Messenger, duly authenticated, and containing the advertisement which the law requires. He then produced three daily newspapers, published in Philadelphia, and containing the same • advertisement, which were found…
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