Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Volume 3Kay & Brother, 1880 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... creek , west of the Allegheny river . Both parties claimed by virtue of settlements , alleged to have been made on the land in dispute , under the Act of the 3d of April 1792 . ( 9 ) [ Burchfield v . McCauley . ] On the trial.
... creek , west of the Allegheny river . Both parties claimed by virtue of settlements , alleged to have been made on the land in dispute , under the Act of the 3d of April 1792 . ( 9 ) [ Burchfield v . McCauley . ] On the trial.
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... trial took place thirty years after the survey was made . Wallace swears that Fenton was Neville's deputy , and surveyed his ( Wallace's ) own tract of land . We pro- duced as strong evidence of the survey as the nature of the case ...
... trial took place thirty years after the survey was made . Wallace swears that Fenton was Neville's deputy , and surveyed his ( Wallace's ) own tract of land . We pro- duced as strong evidence of the survey as the nature of the case ...
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... trial is to be credited , Cornelius McCauley , their father , in 1801 , had an actual , personal resident settlement upon the land in controversy ; and under the eighth section of the Act of 1792 , had a right to call upon the deputy ...
... trial is to be credited , Cornelius McCauley , their father , in 1801 , had an actual , personal resident settlement upon the land in controversy ; and under the eighth section of the Act of 1792 , had a right to call upon the deputy ...
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... trial ? The rule , as laid down and qualified in Miller v . Carothers , is , " that all papers found among the official papers of the deputy - surveyor , may fairly be supposed to be official papers ( unless the contrary be proved ) ...
... trial ? The rule , as laid down and qualified in Miller v . Carothers , is , " that all papers found among the official papers of the deputy - surveyor , may fairly be supposed to be official papers ( unless the contrary be proved ) ...
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... trial of the cause , by the counsel of the plaintiffs in error , that the circumstances under which it was proved that McCauley quitted the possession of the land , and his neglect of it for something like two years before McElwayne ...
... trial of the cause , by the counsel of the plaintiffs in error , that the circumstances under which it was proved that McCauley quitted the possession of the land , and his neglect of it for something like two years before McElwayne ...
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