Goddard v. Gloninger
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Lebanon county. This was an action of ejectment by John Gloninger, Martin Meily and John Bickel, Sen., against John Goddard, Charles Bird, Joseph M’Eldridge, Benjamin Kugler and John Beck & Co., for four tracts of land in Lebanon county.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Lebanon county. This was an action of ejectment by John Gloninger, Martin Meily and John Bickel, Sen., against John Goddard, Charles Bird, Joseph M’Eldridge, Benjamin Kugler and John Beck & Co., for four tracts of land in Lebanon county. The plaintiff gave in evidence two warrants dated the 8th of April 1794, under whicli they claimed, and then offered a survey for the warrantees, made by John Weidman, deputy-sheriff, on the south side of the Second Blue mountain in East Hanover township, Dauphin county, dated the 12th of August 1796, endorsed “ transferred from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
Many things are presented, in this voluminous record, which to me had appeared long settled, yet are here made the subject of exception and of alleged doubt. When I came into the profession, in 1795, almost all causes in which the title to lands came in question, were removed to the supreme court, and, after the circuit court was established, into that court; and until 1809, when that court was abolished, all such causes were tried before, at first, two judges of the supreme court, and afterwards, before one judge. M’Kean, Shippen, Yeates and…
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