Congregation v. Miles
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
WRIT of error to Susquehanna county. This was an ejectment brought to recover part of two tracts of land, surveyed on two warrants, in the names of J. Dunlap and Susanna Woodrow, described particularly in the writ: defence was taken for one hundred and nine acres and one hundred and nineteen perches, also specially designated.
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WRIT of error to Susquehanna county. This was an ejectment brought to recover part of two tracts of land, surveyed on two warrants, in the names of J. Dunlap and Susanna Woodrow, described particularly in the writ: defence was taken for one hundred and nine acres and one hundred and nineteen perches, also specially designated. The plaintiffs gave in evidence the warrants to John Dunlap and to Susanna Woodrow, each for four hundred acres, dated the 22d of February 1785; survey on each for four hundred and seven and a half acres on the 8th of October 1785. Deeds poll daled the 7th and 6th of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
—The court overruled all the objections made in the court below to the admission of deeds in evidence, and several bills of exception were taken ; in some of which there was error, such as admitting a deed to be read on proof of the handwriting of one witness, without proof that the other witness was dead, or that any inquiry had been made for him. I pass over these, because I suppose the court below intended to have the main and great question decided by this court.
Before I proceed to discuss this cause it may be proper to notice the case of…
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