70 Pa. 199 | Pa. | 1871
The opinion of the court was delivered, November 20th 1871, by
In the view which we take of this case, the only question to be examined is, whether the plaintiff below succeeded in showing a good title to the premises described in the writ of ejectment. As the conclusion at which we have arrived upon this question is adverse to him, it will be altogether unnecessary to consider whether the case of the defendant as presented by the evidence upon the bar of the Statute of Limitations and upon the estoppel, ought to have been submitted to the jury, and whether the verdict was sufficiently certain to authorize the court to enter judgment upon it.
Albert Gallatin laid out the village of New Geneva upon the Monongahela river in the year 1797, and entered of record in the recorder’s office-of the county a plat of his intended town— on which certain lots were laid out and numbered. In a certificate attached to this plat he stated that “ the course of Ferry street from the corner of lot No. 53 to the river not being yet precisely ascertained, and also that the lines of the lots Nos. 158,