PENN'S LESSEE v. KLYNE


4 U.S. 402 (____)

4 Dall. 402

Penn's Lessee versus Klyne.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The general ground taken by the plaintiff's counsel (E. Tilghman, Lewis, and Rawle.)


WASHINGTON, Justice.

In this cause there are two questions, 1st. Have the lessors of the plaintiffs a title to the land in question. If they have, 2d. Has the defendant a better right?

1st. The lessors of the plaintiffs, or those under whom they claim, were once the sole owners and proprietaries, not only of the government, but of the soil, of Pennsylvania, not in a political, but in their private and individual capacities; not as trustees for the people,...

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