Gratz v. Beates
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Centre county. This was an action of ejectment brought by David Gratz against John H. Beates, James Irwin, and Augustus Hyman, for a tract of land in Burnside township, surveyed in 1792, on a warrant dated July 3d 1792, in the name of Elizabeth Harris, containing 433 acres and 153 perches. Before the trial of the cause the plaintiff died, and his devisees, Louisa and Elizabeth Gratz, were substituted.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Centre county. This was an action of ejectment brought by David Gratz against John H. Beates, James Irwin, and Augustus Hyman, for a tract of land in Burnside township, surveyed in 1792, on a warrant dated July 3d 1792, in the name of Elizabeth Harris, containing 433 acres and 153 perches. Before the trial of the cause the plaintiff died, and his devisees, Louisa and Elizabeth Gratz, were substituted. Certified connected draft of 37 tracts, dated April 23d 1853, including the Elizabeth Harris, for the purpose of showing its connection with the contiguous tracts.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by
Thompson, J.
After a careful study and examination of the elaborate presentation of this case by counsel for the plaintiffs in error, at bar and in their paper-book, we are not able to discover any element or complication of elements in it, which called for anything but the application of the most simple principles governing in trials of land titles, and to be found everywhere prominent in the books. We are of opinion that they were accurately administered on the trial, and we might safely leave the case on the lucid charge of the learned judge. We will…
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