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5 Watts & Serg. 49

Ebner v. Goundie

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided December 15, 1842

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1842-12-15

Goundie 'against Henry Ebner, John J. Krause, John Rice and Jacob Fetzer, and a verdict and judgment rendered for the plaintiff. James Allen was the owner of a large tract of land in Lehigh county, of which tract that on which the trespass complained of was committed, was a part. On the 13th of December 1772 he granted a part of the tract to Martin Derr. The south boundary of the part thus granted was 5 feet north of the Little Lehigh.

Decided 1842-12-15

Per Curiam.

¶1This cause was tried before the report of Lightner v. Mooney, (10 Watts 407), was published ; else it would doubtless have been decided differently, so far as regards the point before us. There we held that where neither deed has been recorded within the six months, the first will prevail if it has been first recorded ; indeed such expressly is the provision of the statute which precludes a grantee from insisting on want of record notice to himself, where he has not done what the law enjoins to give notice to those who may come after him. Here there was no question of possession to take the case out of the rule; and we are bound to send the record back for another trial.

¶2Judgment reversed, and a venire de novo awarded.

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