Green v. Watrous
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Writ of error to the Court of Common ¡Pleas of Susquehanna county. ‘ . ' At the term of May, A. D. 1826, Joseph Watrous, the plaintiff below and defendant in error, brought this ejectment in the court below against Obadiah Green and Zalmon Gregory, two of the plaintiffs in error and defendants below, and declared for “a'certain tract of land, situate in the township of Bridgewater, hi Susquehanna county, containing four hundred and twelve acres and eighty perches,…
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IN ERROR. Writ of error to the Court of Common ¡Pleas of Susquehanna county. ‘ . ' At the term of May, A. D. 1826, Joseph Watrous, the plaintiff below and defendant in error, brought this ejectment in the court below against Obadiah Green and Zalmon Gregory, two of the plaintiffs in error and defendants below, and declared for “a'certain tract of land, situate in the township of Bridgewater, hi Susquehanna county, containing four hundred and twelve acres and eighty perches, or thereabouts, adjoining lands now in the possession of Isaac Hubbard, &c:, the right of possession, or title to which,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
For a particular statement of the facts,.I refer generally to the -bill of exceptions. The Court of Common Pleas charged the jury, that the-plaintiff might recover against-those he showed were defendants in the original judgment, or held under them, but not against Zalmon Gregory, unless he held under the defendant‘in that judgment. In this, we perceive no error. As between the purchaser and the defendants in the action, the purchaser can recover, on' the: strength of the sale and sheriff’s deed, without showing other title, nor can the…
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