Lessee of Porter v. Ferguson

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Lessee of Porter v. Ferguson, 3 Yeates 60 (Pa. 1800)

Lessee of Porter v. Ferguson

Opinion of the Court

The court said, that no benefit could be derived under the lat*60ter survey, unless by shewing the warrant or order on which it was grounded. A survey having been once made, a new authority became indispensably necessary to justify a second survey. The legal presumption is, that the first survey was made with the full consent of the party and shall conclude him, unless *fraud or improper conduct can justly be ascribed to the deputy surveyor; and in such case the complaint must [*61 be followed up in a reasonable time. His laches will otherwise postpone him. These principles have been often laid down, and conduce to the peace and safety of the country. They were delivered particularly in the cases of Drinker’s lessee v. Holliday, and Hollingshead’s lessee v. Pollock, tried at Huntingdon, May assizes 1796, and cannot be departed from.

Cited in 3 S. & R. 350 in support of the decision that after a survey made and returned into office, a second survey, without an order of the board of property, is merely void. Cited for the same purpose in 43 Pa. 202. Messrs. Pentecost and T. Campbell, pro qticr. Mr. Simonson, pro def.

The plaintiff suffered a nonsuit.

Reference

Full Case Name
Lessee of Robert Porter against James Ferguson and Abraham Feagley
Cited By
2 cases
Status
Published