Beeson v. Hutchison
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to Payette county. Ejectment by John Beeson against Isaac Hutchison. The case and points are fully stated by his honour, who delivered the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtHuston, J.
—The plaintiff here, who was plaintiff below, claimed seventy-five acres by a warrant for that quantity, dated the 5th of October 1831, on which he had a survey and return.
The defendant produced a warrant to Jeremiah Cook for one hundred and fifty acres, dated the 16th of February 1786. This warrant called for an improvement made in 1776, and defendant proved that the land had been a settled farm from about that time. He also produced the draft of a survey from the office of the present deputy surveyor: it was without date, but admitted to be the work of a man who was an assistant of the…
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