Hoak v. Long
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county. Ejectment by Anthony Long, the plaintiff below, against Rudolph Hoak, and Daniel Minich, defendants below, for a tract of land in Lykens township, Dauphin county, containing 70 acres, or thereabouts. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 37 acres and 20 perches, particularly specified in the verdict.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county. Ejectment by Anthony Long, the plaintiff below, against Rudolph Hoak, and Daniel Minich, defendants below, for a tract of land in Lykens township, Dauphin county, containing 70 acres, or thereabouts. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 37 acres and 20 perches, particularly specified in the verdict. Six bills of exceptions to evidence were taken by the defendants on the trial in the court below, but only one was now noticed in the opinion of the court, viz: a bill of exceptions to a deed dated the 9th October, 1813, from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tilghman, C. J.
This is an action of ejectment, in which Anthony Long, the defendant in error, was plaintiff in the court below. There were six bills of exceptions taken by the counsel for the defendants, on the trial of the cause, in alj of which, the court’s decision was right, except the 5th. This exception was to a deed from Mathias Weymar, and wife, to Anthony Long, for the land in dispute. The objection to this deed was, that Weymar had shown no title whatever to the land, which he undertook to convey. The rule is well established, that a deed is…
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