Hoover v. Gonzalus
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
in error. Writ of error to the Common Pleas of Centre county, in an action of ejectment, brought by the defendants in error against the plaintiffs in error, to recover a tract of land on the north side of Bald Eagle Creek. (See Gonzalus and another v. Hoover and another, 6 Serg. Bawle, 118.) In delivering the opinion of the court, the chief justice has.so fully stated, the circumstances connected with the questions raised by the record, that it is unnecessary to repeat them.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tilghman, C. J.
The defendants in error, were plaintiffs below, and claimed under alocation of the 3d April, 1769, No. 158, in the name of Benjamin Brown, for 300 acres of land, on the north side of Bald Eagle Creek, &c. The defendants claimed under two locations of the 3d April, 1679; one of them, No 1347, in the name of George Knight, and the other No. 1796, in the name of George Wilson, both the property of Samuel Wallis, from whom the defendants derived their title. On the trial of the cause, the defendants took nine bills of exceptions to evidence.…
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