Wolf v. Goddard
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Lebanon county. John Goddard, Charles Bird, Joseph M. Eldridge, Benjamin Kugler, and Paul Beck, Jr.j in trust for the Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company, against Jonathan Wolf, George Hamer, Jacob Seiler and Philip German. This was an action of ejectment for two tracts of land in Dauphin county. The facts of the case and the various bills of exceptions are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Huston, J.
The defendants here were plaintiffs below, and brought this ejectment to recover two tracts of land surveyed on two warrants dated each 3d of April 1794, in the names of Martin Moyer and Conrad Moyer, and surveyed to contain 437 acres 90 perches and 426 acres 93 perches.
The writ was served on Jonathan Wolf, in possession. The other defendants admitted to defend as landlords.
The surveys were made on two of one hundred warrants, the leading one in the name of Joseph Hiester, made by B. Galbraith in June 1795, not returned by him but returned in…
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