Peebles v. Reading
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In ERROR. ON a writ of error to the Common Pleas of Allegheny county, the opinion of the Court, in an action of ejectment, brought by John Reading, the defendant in error, against William Peebles, the plaintiff in error, was returned with the record. It was filed at the request' of the counsel for the plaintiff in error, and contains all that is material in the case.
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In ERROR. ON a writ of error to the Common Pleas of Allegheny county, the opinion of the Court, in an action of ejectment, brought by John Reading, the defendant in error, against William Peebles, the plaintiff in error, was returned with the record. It was filed at the request' of the counsel for the plaintiff in error, and contains all that is material in the case. Wilkins, President. — -This is an ejectment brought to recover about seventy-five acres of land in Pitt township, which the plaintiff claims upon the alleged fact that John Turner, from whom the defendant purchased, bought the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Duncan J. —
This was an ejectment, brought by John Reading, ior seventy-five acres of land of which he had been *491the owner. Judgments were obtained against him, and the property sold by the Sheriff to yofin Turner for one hundred and seventy-one dollars, the amount of all the liens ; and on J 7 7 the 3d August, 1804, the Sheriff acknowledged a deed to Turner on the receipt of the purchase money fro n him. The land would then have rented .for one hundred dollars per •year, and was worth eight or ten per acre. In 1805, Turner moved into one of the cabins…
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