Supreme Court of Pennsylvania March 10, 1869, No. 124 (Pattison's Appeal)

The opinion of the court was delivered, May 11th 1869, .by

Thompson, C. J.

It would strike the unprofessional mind in *297this state with scarcely less surprise than it would the professional, if it were announced that the growing timber on a man’s land might be held by a contract in parol, against everybody, whilst the soil itself could only be legally transmitted by an instrument of writing;