Wilhelm v. Shoop
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In error, from the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county. June 26, 1846. This was an ejectment for one hundred and fifty acres of land, in Jackson township, Dauphin county, in which Henry Wilhelm, only son and heir-at-law of Ellis Wilhelm and Elizabeth his wife, late Elizabeth Bachman, Jacob Bachman, only son and heir-at-law of Christian Bachman, deceased, and others, were plaintiffs, and. John Shoop, sen., and John Shoop, jun., were defendants.
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In error, from the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county. June 26, 1846. This was an ejectment for one hundred and fifty acres of land, in Jackson township, Dauphin county, in which Henry Wilhelm, only son and heir-at-law of Ellis Wilhelm and Elizabeth his wife, late Elizabeth Bachman, Jacob Bachman, only son and heir-at-law of Christian Bachman, deceased, and others, were plaintiffs, and. John Shoop, sen., and John Shoop, jun., were defendants. On the trial before Eldred, P. J., the plaintiffs gave in evidence a warrant from the late proprietaries of Pennsylvania, to Francis Gissler, dated…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnside, J.
The plaintiffs in error, who were plaintiffs below, claimed the land in question under a warrant from the late proprietors of Pennsylvania to Francis Gissler, bearing date the 17th of October, 1774, for one hundred and fifty acres of land, including a small improvement begun two weeks before, on the east branch of Armstrong’s Creek,' adjoining the Short Mountain, about nine or ten miles from the Susquehanna, in Upper Paxton township.
It was in evidence, that this warrant to Francis Gissler had been surveyed before the Revolution, by the proper deputy, Bartram Galbraith, but had never been…