Douglass v. Lucas
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson county: No. 106, to October and November Term 1869. This was an action of ejectment commenced December 22d 1866, by Lizzie G. Douglass and others, minor children and heirs of James Douglass, deceased, against Thomas Lucas, for 404 acres of land.
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Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson county: No. 106, to October and November Term 1869. This was an action of ejectment commenced December 22d 1866, by Lizzie G. Douglass and others, minor children and heirs of James Douglass, deceased, against Thomas Lucas, for 404 acres of land. On the trial, December 18th 1868, before Campbell, P. J., the plaintiffs gave in evidence receipts for the payment of the purchase-money for the land and office fees, amounting in the whole to $122.67, and patent dated March 17th 1856, to James Douglass, their ancestor, for 404 acres and 81 perches of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 5th 1870, by
Shakswood, J. —
It has undoubtedly been established, under the “ Act for the limitation of actions to be brought for the inhe= *12ritanee or possession of real property,” passed March 26th 1785 (2 Sm. Laws 299), that a formal entry, animo damandi, or an act of notorious dominion, by which the claimant challenges the right of the occupant, will avoid its operation: Altemas v. Campbell, 9 Watts 28; Hinman v. Cranmer, 9 Barr 40; Ingersoll v. Lewis, 1 Jones 212. But that is a construction required by the words of the statute : “No person shall…
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