Lehigh Valley Coal Co. v. Beaver Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 315, Jan. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Centre Co., Jan. T., 1897, No. 204, on verdict for defendant in case of Lehigh Valley Coal Company v. Beaver Lumber Company, Mary I. Ardell, John Ardell, Jr., George Lucas, David Hoover, D. C. Shope, Isaac Lanning, Frank Lanning, Alfred Ammerman and Wilson Wolford. Ejectment for land in Union and Rush townships. Before Bell, P. J., specially presiding.
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Appeal, No. 315, Jan. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Centre Co., Jan. T., 1897, No. 204, on verdict for defendant in case of Lehigh Valley Coal Company v. Beaver Lumber Company, Mary I. Ardell, John Ardell, Jr., George Lucas, David Hoover, D. C. Shope, Isaac Lanning, Frank Lanning, Alfred Ammerman and Wilson Wolford. Ejectment for land in Union and Rush townships. Before Bell, P. J., specially presiding. The questions involved as stated by the appellant were as follows: Questions of fact, (a) Where is the true location of plaintiff’s surveys ; and (5) where is the true…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
This was an ejectment in the court below to recover possession of about 1,131 acres of land warranted, as averred by plaintiff, in names of Reuben Haines, Martha Huston and Robert Morris in the townships of Union and Rush, Centre county.
The three, warrants were all granted the same day, January 8, 1793, and surveyed, the first two, August 12, 1794, and the third, August 19, following. The three tracts formed the southern end of a block, called the Levy block, of sixty tracts, the warrants for which were applied for on the same day by the same purchaser; they were…
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