Weitershausen v. Fairman

Citations

• 52 Pa. Super. 169
• 1912 Pa. Super. LEXIS 151

Syllabus

<p>Land law— Common land— Municipalities— Possession— Streets—■ Acts of September 11,1787, 8 Sm. Laws, 414, omd April 18,1840, sec. 18, P. L. 80S.</p> <p>Where land reserved under the Act of September 11, 1787, 2 Sm. Laws, 414, as common land for a common pasture became vested in the city of Allegheny by the Act of April 13,1840, P. L. 303, but about 1815 a strip of twenty feet thereof was exchanged for another strip of twenty feet back of adjoining lots, so as to widen a street in front of the lots, and this land thereafter remained in undisputed possession of the lot owners for nearly 100 years, with the approval of the city, the title to it is good in the lot owners, although there is no record of any proceedings by which the exchange was effected.</p>