Paxton v. Griswold

Citations

• 122 U.S. 441
• 7 S. Ct. 1216
• 30 L. Ed. 1143
• 1887 U.S. LEXIS 2122

Syllabus

<p>In Pennsylvania a private survey cannot be received in evidence for the purpose of making out a title from the proprietaries, even though it may have been referred to in other surveys; and parol and circumstantial evidence is inadmissible to establish such a survey.</p> <p>The non-return of a survey to the laud office in Pennsylvania for one hundred and thirty years is proof of abandonment.</p> <p>The rules adopted in the land office in Pennsylvania in 1765 made no alteration as to returns of surveys, which before that date, were required to be returned to the land office, in order that it might appear by the records of that office what lands were alienated, and what not.</p> <p>In Pennsylvania, unless a survey is returned to the land office in a reasonable time, w'hich time has been fixed by the courts of that state at seven yfears, it is regarded as abandoned.</p>