Bassett v. Hawk
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE ARMSTRONG COUNTY. Nos. 209, 218, October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 51 June Term 1882, C. P. This was an action of ejectment by A. E. Bassett against Simon Hawk for a parcel of land in South Buffalo township, containing twenty-five acres, more or less, brought March 23,. 1882. The plea was not guilty.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS OE ARMSTRONG COUNTY. Nos. 209, 218, October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 51 June Term 1882, C. P. This was an action of ejectment by A. E. Bassett against Simon Hawk for a parcel of land in South Buffalo township, containing twenty-five acres, more or less, brought March 23,. 1882. The plea was not guilty. A former judgment, for the-defendant, was reversed in this court with a venire de novo, and is reported in 114 Pa. 502. At the second trial, on March 24, 1877, it was made to-appear that Columbus McGinley died on April 14,1843, seized in fee of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Gordon :
This was an action of ejectment for the recovery of the possession of a tract of twenty-five acres of land, more or less, situate in the township of South Buffalo in the county of Armstrong, brought by A. E. Bassett against Simon Hawk.
' The land in controversy was part of a larger tract owned by *104Columbus McGinley, in bis lifetime, who, previously to his. decease in 1843, made his will, which, so far as it affects this case, reads as follows: “ The farm on which I live, in Buffalo township aforesaid, I give and bequeath the one half of the same to my daughter,…
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