Lessee of Hartley v. M'Anulty
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
A POINT was reserved on the trial of this cause, at the last Circuit Court, which the justices continued under advisement. They now proceeded to deliver their opinions.
1Opinion of the CourtYeates, J.
This cause was tried on the 6th October 1803, and the plaintiff obtained a verdict for 95 J acres in Fannet township. He claimed under a sale by the sheriff, who seized and sold the same as the property of Alexander Moore. At the trial a point was made, and reserved for further consideration, whether the deed from Robert Karr, the patentee, to Alexander Moore, dated 5th April 1787, passed any estate to the grantee. No consideration was expressed in the body of the deed; but a receipt was subjoined thereto, whereby the grantor acknowledged that *95“he liad received from the grantee 250 in specie,…
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