Waters v. Bates
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Crawford county. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Hezekiali Bates, against Alonzo Waters, Uriah Waters, Nelson Waters, and Joseph Stickle, for two hundred and eighty-four acres of land in Bloomfield township. The land was patented to John Taylor, from whose heirs, under proceedings in the Orphans' Court, it passed to Thomas King. King conveyed it to.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Crawford county. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Hezekiali Bates, against Alonzo Waters, Uriah Waters, Nelson Waters, and Joseph Stickle, for two hundred and eighty-four acres of land in Bloomfield township. The land was patented to John Taylor, from whose heirs, under proceedings in the Orphans' Court, it passed to Thomas King. King conveyed it to. David McAllister by deed dated April 8th 1845, for the consideration of $190.85, reciting in the deed a contract for the sale thereof to Wareham Waters, and declaring the conveyance to be “ subject to said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, J.
What was said in support of the first error assigned, would have been very properly addressed to the Orphans’ Court, by way of opposing confirmation of the proceedings in partition, but those proceedings were not to be overhauled in this collateral action, and therefore the exception to that record, and the argument addressed to us in support of the exception, are alike irrelevant and inadmissible.
The other errors have relation to the effect of the judgment in *476ejectment, confessed by Waters to King on the 15th of February 1844. Did it…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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