Evans v. Erie County

Citations

• 66 Pa. 222
• 1871 Pa. LEXIS 18

Syllabus

<p>1. The Commonwealth by Act of Assembly granted to the borough of Erie the “ 3d section” of certain lands, reserving 100 acres to be selected by commissioners for a poor-house for Erie county. The commissioners located the 100 acres “at the south-west corner” of section 3, leaving a strip between its west line and the west line of the section. The strip belonged to the borough of Erie.</p> <p>2. Evans was in possession of the strip at the passage of the act; the Statute of Limitations began to run in his favor against Erie from that time.</p> <p>3. The statute runs against a county or other municipal corporation.</p> <p>4. Nullum tempus oceurrit reipublicce, applies to the sovereign only.</p>